Japanese flood disaster frays resilience of elderly victims

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When a river in Japan's Fukushima prefecture overflowed on Sunday at the height of Typhoon Hagibis, 700 homes were flooded, many belonging to ...

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Hiromi Nagasawa, a social welfare official in Date city in Fukushima prefecture, near where the Abukuma river burst its banks, said nearly all of the 170 people left in evacuation centres were old.

An aerial view shows residential areas flooded by the Chikuma river, caused by Typhoon Hagibis in Nagano, central Japan on Oct 13, 2019. Bamba's group and city officials are recruiting volunteers to help the elderly clear mud and debris from their homes. "I want to help clean up so she can at least save some things," said student Raina Sato, as she wiped Taniguchi's family photos.Taniguchi, who lives alone and has been staying with her daughter since the flood, appeared to be losing hope.

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