At least six killed in Japan after floods hit quake-stricken Noto Peninsula

Record rainfall inundated the area, which was inactive rebuilding pursuing January’s 7.5 magnitude quake.

At slightest six radical person been confirmed dormant connected Japan’s Noto Peninsula aft floods struck an country inactive recovering from a large earthquake 9 months ago.

Heavy rainfall pounded the country implicit the weekend, with much than 540 millimetres (21 inches) of rainfall recorded successful the metropolis of Wajima implicit 72 hours, the heaviest continuous rainfall since comparative information became available.

The portion is inactive recovering from a magnitude-7.5 earthquake connected January 1, which toppled buildings, triggered landslides and sparked a monolithic fire.

The Japan Times and nationalist broadcaster NHK said six radical had been killed – 5 successful Wajima and 1 successful adjacent Suzu.

At slightest 8 radical were missing oregon unaccounted for, according to NHK, including a 14-year-old inferior precocious schoolgirl.

Floodwater inundated exigency lodging built for those who had mislaid their homes successful the earthquake, which killed astatine slightest 374 people, according to the Ishikawa determination government. Some of the missing were workers connected quake-related operation projects.

Some 4,000 households were without powerfulness connected Monday arsenic a effect of the rain, according to the Hokuriku Electric Power Company.

More than 100 areas successful the portion were chopped disconnected aft landslides blocked roads.

Akemi Yamashita, a 54-year-old Wajima resident, told the AFP quality bureau she was driving connected Saturday erstwhile “within lone 30 minutes oregon so, h2o gushed into the thoroughfare and rapidly roseate to fractional the tallness of my car”.

“I was talking to different residents of Wajima yesterday, and they said, ‘It’s truthful heartbreaking to unrecorded successful this city’. I got teary erstwhile I heard that,” she said, describing the earthquake and floods arsenic “like thing from a movie”.

Military unit person been sent to the country to assistance rescue workers aft tens of thousands of residents were urged to evacuate.

“This is dense rainfall successful the portion that suffered monolithic harm by the Noto Peninsula earthquake. There indispensable beryllium galore radical who are precise worried,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi told reporters.

Heavy rainfall was besides reported successful the adjacent bluish prefectures of Niigata and Yamagata, threatening flooding and different harm and forcing the suspension of bid services.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies