Death at least of four people caused the giant mudslide who swept everything in her passage to the coastal town Atami, in the central Japan, on Saturday. The previous report of the authorities mentioned three victims.
In the meantime, search operations are continuing 64 people, as announced today, Monday, with the rescue and liquidation operations to be repeated tomorrow, Tuesday, at 6 am local time (Monday 24.00 Greek time).
Today, firefighters, police and soldiers of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces used special poles and excavators to move through the mud and clear mountains of debris, in an increasingly desperate search for survivors, the APE BPE reported.
Four bodies have been found so far, but local authorities continue to show no signs of life since dozens other people living in the affected area before the disaster.
“At least 64 people are still wanted,” she told AFP Utah Joy, a representative of the Disaster Management Agency in the city of Atami. A list of their names was published in the hope that the authorities would extract information about these individuals.
It is possible that some of these people have not lived in the area for some time, although their names have been registered in register of the inhabitants of the area.
“The national government, in cooperation with the municipal authorities, will ascertain (how many) people are reported missing,” the prime minister said. Yoshihide Suga.
He insisted that the rescuers “make every effort to save as many people as possible, as soon as possible.”
It is noted that a large part of Japan is currently in the middle of the rainy season, which often causes floods and landslides. Scientists estimate that the phenomenon was intensified by climate change as a warmer atmosphere retains more water, increasing the risk and intensity of extreme rainfall.
The Japanese archipelago, moreover, has been increasingly confronted in recent years with unprecedented floods accompanied by landslides and often a heavy toll of human losses.
In early July 2018, terrible floods in western Japan caused more than 200 deaths. Two years later at the same time, record floods in the southwestern part of the country left behind more than 80 dead and missing persons.
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