Falling into a river caught in a landslide Male foot injury Nagano Toyooka Village 12th July 13:09
In Toyooka village in the southern part of Nagano prefecture where it rains intermittently, a man who went to see the state of a landslide at dawn on the 12th was caught in another landslide and washed away by a nearby river. The man was rescued and his leg was injured, but his life was no different.
Before 1 am on the 12th, my family reported to the fire department that a 58-year-old man who lived in Tomioka village Kamiine was caught in a landslide and was washed away by a river.
According to police etc., on the 8th of this month, when a man went to see the site of a landslide near his home, he was caught in a newly created landslide and fell into a nearby river.
It is said that a man was washed away by about 30 meters and was rescued by a fire department, and his foot was injured, but there is no special condition for his life.
According to Toyooka Village, a landslide involving a man is about 10 meters wide and 20 meters high, and the river shed is a tributary of the Tenryu River, usually about 3 meters wide and about 50 cm deep. But at that time, it was raining.
In the southern part of Nagano Prefecture, including Toyooka Village, it has been raining intermittently from the night of the 11th to the dawn of the 12th, and the meteorological observatory calls attention to sediment-related disasters.