One dead, two missing in Japan after heavy rain due to Tropical Storm Mawar

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TOKYO: Heavy rain across parts of Japan has killed one person and left two missing, authorities said Saturday (Jun 3), with thousands issued evacuation warnings and left without power. The inundatio

has killed one person and left two missing, authorities said Saturday , with thousands issued evacuation warnings and left without power.

A rescue team in central Aichi region's Toyohashi, where the country's highest-level evacuation alert was issued Friday,"found a man approximately in his 60s in a submerged car but he was later confirmed dead", a city official told AFP. In central and western Japan, many evacuation orders - which are non-compulsory, even at the highest level -were downgraded Saturday as rains eased.Some 4,000 households in regions close to Tokyo were suffering power outages, the Tokyo Electric Power Company said.

On Friday, top government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno warned of"extremely heavy rainfall with thunderstorms" in a wide area over the next three days.Scientists say climate change is intensifying the risk of heavy rain in Japan and elsewhere, because a warmer atmosphere holds more water.

 

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