China News Service, July 7 (Xinhua), Kyodo News reported that due to the stagnant front of Meiyu, Kumamoto Prefecture of Japan suffered heavy rainfall. According to news released by the Kumamoto prefectural government in Japan, as of 7 pm local time on the 6th, local rainstorms have killed 49 people, 11 people are missing, and one person's heart and lungs have stopped. The Japanese police, firefighting, and self-defense forces continue to struggle to find the missing.
At the same time, all parts of Kyushu, Japan suffered heavy rainfall on the 6th, and the authorities issued evacuation instructions to a total of about 1.226 million people.
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued special rainstorm warnings to local governments in the three prefectures of Nagasaki, Saga and Fukuoka.
The picture shows the house collapsed after a landslide caused by heavy rain in Ashkita City, Kumamoto Prefecture on July 5, local time.
According to reports, the special warning is equivalent to the highest level of 5 in the heavy rain and flood warning level. This is the fourth time that the warning was issued for Kumamoto and Kagoshima.
As of 8 p.m. local time on the 6th, local evacuation instructions in 3 prefectures in Japan that had been issued special warnings were a total of about 95.4 thousand families with a total of about 440,000 households. In Kumamoto Prefecture, there were once approximately 205,000 households with approximately 92,000 households, and in Oita, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima, there were once approximately 67,000 households with approximately 30,000 households.
According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the Meiyu front will stay in western Japan to the northeast until about 8 days. The warm and humid air flow causes unstable atmospheric conditions, and the state of frequent frontal activity will continue.