One week after the heavy rain disaster in Kumamoto Searching for missing persons Continues at 12:09 on July 11th
It will be one week in 11 days from the heavy rain disaster that caused tremendous damage to Kumamoto Prefecture. Nine people are still missing in the prefecture, and police and other search activities are continuing.
The record-breaking heavy rains have caused tremendous damage in various places in Kumamoto Prefecture, such as the Kuma River flooding and landslides one after another, and 60 people have died in the prefecture so far, and 9 people still remain. It is missing.
Among these, in Tsunagi-machi in the southern part of the prefecture, a house was crushed by the collapsed mountain surface, and depending on the town, a 83-year-old woman and a 58-year-old son are missing.
At the site, police, fire department, and the Self-Defense Forces etc. are continuing the search with about 200 people including support from outside the prefecture, but the search on the 11th was delayed by 2 hours due to the heavy rain in the morning at 9 am It started from.
While the family of the missing person worried over the anxiety, the search team was searching for it by carefully removing dirt and timber with heavy equipment.
Mr. Kengo Nakanishi, captain of the Mie Prefectural Police Emergency Assistance Corps, who is searching for support, says, ``It is difficult to use heavy equipment because the ground is loose due to heavy rain and heavy rain, but with the same feeling as family rescue I want to find the missing person as soon as possible."