The body is confirmed to be a missing woman. The search continues for his son. Fukushima Soma Oct 26, 18:18

On the 26th, a woman found dead in Soma City, Fukushima Prefecture, was confirmed to be a woman in her 60s who had lost her place in a record heavy rain. The Self-Defense Forces and police are searching for a son who seems to have been together.

According to firefighters, this woman was past 9:00 pm on the 25th, and after notifying the office that she was being washed away by water while driving with her son, she was missing. .

As a result of searches by the fire department and the police, the woman was found dead at the beach in Obama, Soma City, around 8:30 am on the 26th.

According to the officials, the woman was evacuated by heavy rain, and it seems that she was on her way to the hotel where she worked with her 30s son. A car in which they were riding was found near the hotel.

The son's whereabouts are unknown, and the Self-Defense Forces and police are searching for the beach and the sea.

In Soma City, it took 6 hours until 10:10 pm on the 25th, and it was a record heavy rain that observed the amount of rain that exceeded October 1 of the normal year, causing inundation damage in a wide range.

Relatives “I am surprised to hear that I have passed away”

A 77-year-old man who was a relative of a 60-year-old woman who died said, “I lived in the immediate vicinity before the Great East Japan Earthquake, but since then I moved a little far together, so I haven't met so much recently. I was really surprised to hear that. "

The 73-year-old wife said that the woman's son was still missing, “I have lived together so far so I want you to find it soon.”

Also, a 75-year-old man living in the next house said, “I'm surprised to hear that I have died and I still can't believe it. I have never seen a quarrel and my mother goes out with my son in a car. He was a very close parent and child. "

After the evening, the water levels of several rivers soared

The car they were in was found near the Koizumi River, and a wide area was flooded on the 25th night.

In the northern part of Hamadori, such as Soma City in Fukushima Prefecture, it began to rain heavily from the evening of the 25th, and heavy rains continued from around 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm at the AMeDAS observation point in Soma City. The rain gauge installed by the prefecture in Ono, Soma City, observed heavy rain exceeding 300 mm from 1 pm to 11 pm on the 25th.

For this reason, the water level of several rivers rose rapidly in the evening, and the Koizumi River also exceeded the danger level of flooding at 7:30 pm with the water level meter installed by the prefecture in Kuroki, Soma City, and from 8:00 to 9:00 thereafter. It has risen nearly 60 centimeters per hour.

According to the male worker who works at the construction site near the site, there was a place where it was immersed in water up to a height of about 1 meter even at 2:30 am when I came to check the inundation situation.

The man said, “The typhoon two weeks ago was inundated, but this time the site office was broken more badly. I think the water flow was faster.”

On the other hand, Soma City announced the evacuation instruction to the basins of Koizumi River and Utagawa at 7:30 pm in response to the rise in water level, which was the first evacuation information in the city.

Although information on flooding, such as disaster occurrence information, has not been announced, Soma City said, “In the rivers in the city, it was confirmed that water leaked due to overflowing water over the embankment, but it was judged that there was no flooding "