1.36 million people asked to evacuate due to heavy rains in Japan’s Kyushu region

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning at 4:30 p.m. Monday for three prefectures in the northern Kyushu region: Fukuoka, Saga and Nagasaki.

The Fukuoka prefectural government on Tuesday announced it had confirmed the death of an 87-year-old woman at her home after it was inundated due to heavy rains in Omuta in the prefecture. Hita Police Station said it received a call shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday from a man in the city who said a woman in her 70s had been swept away by a river. The woman is believed to have been swept away by the Kusu River, and the police continued to search for her.

As water levels of the Shimouke Dam straddling the border of Oita and Kumamoto prefectures rose, the ministry on Tuesday morning took the emergency step of discharging water from the dam into the Tsue River of the Chikugo River system. It poses no immediate risk of flooding as there is another dam downstream.Meanwhile, in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, the deaths of a man and a woman were confirmed after they were found in a car.

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