Two women died while playing in the river. Men also had cardiopulmonary arrest Nagano Okuwa Village September 14, 12:27
On the 13th, two men and women in their twenties who were visiting Okuwa Village in Nagano Prefecture were washed away by the river, killing a female university student, and according to police, a man was also in a state of cardiopulmonary arrest after 11:00 am on the 14th. It means that it was found.
After 4:00 pm on the 13th, the fire department was notified that "two friends were washed away" at the Atera River in Nojiri, Okuwa Village, Nagano Prefecture.
After a search by police and fire departments, the woman was rescued about 250 meters downstream from where she was washed away about an hour later and died at the hospital she was transferred to.
According to police, the person who died was Akiho Kobayashi (22), a third-year university student living in Matsumoto City.
In addition, the search for a man in his late twenties who was swept away resumed on the morning of the 14th, and police said that a man was found in cardiopulmonary arrest about 100 meters further downstream from where Mr. Kobayashi was found around 11:00 am. about it.
According to the Meteorological Observatory, it is possible that the river was flooded with a little more than 10 mm of rain per hour by noon on the 13th around the upper reaches of the Atera River.
Mr. Kobayashi and his colleagues were visiting for sightseeing, and when they were playing in the river, Mr. Kobayashi was swept away, and a man who tried to help was also swept away.
According to the police, water accidents have occurred in the Atera River in the past, and Okuwa Village warns that "the river water is transparent, the water depth is difficult to understand, and there are places where the flow is fast."