Around 4:30 pm on the 18th, a high school boy who was swimming near the coast of Iwanuma City, Miyagi Prefecture, was washed off the coast.
The police and the Japan Coast Guard are searching using helicopters.
According to the police, at around 4:25 pm on the 18th, a person who was fishing near the coast of Shimonogo, Iwanuma City, reported to the police that "people were being washed away."
According to police and the Japan Coast Guard, four teenage high school boys who were swimming were washed away, three of them returned to the beach on their own, but one was washed off the coast. ..
According to the police, the place where the high school boys were washed away was not the beach, so the police and the 2nd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters are searching for their whereabouts using helicopters.