Emergency services in western Japan are "racing against time" to rescue people stranded by devastating floods and landslides that have killed at least 50 people, with more torrential rain forecast.
"We are racing against time," Yutaro Hamasaki, an official in the hardest-hit region of Kumamoto, told AFP. Rivers overflowing their banks have swept away bridges and turned roads into lakes, making rescue access possible only by raft or helicopter. Fourteen of the dead were wheelchair users living in a nursing home unable to escape to higher ground as the waters rose.
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