© REUTERSA kimono-clad woman taking photos of swollen Kamo River, caused by a heavy rain, from Shijo Bridge in Kyoto, western Japan, on July 5, 2018.
Hundreds of thousands of people across a wide swathe of western and central Japan were evacuated from their homes on Friday (July 6) as torrential rains pounded the nation, flooding rivers, setting off landslides and leaving at least two people dead.
The Japan Meteorological Agency said the rainfall was"historic" and warned more rain was set to batter already saturated parts of the nation through Sunday.
By Friday morning, one part of the main island of Honshu had been hit with twice the total amount of rain for a normal July.
At least two people were killed, one when he was sucked down a drainage pipe and another an elderly woman toppled by a gust of wind. Several more people were missing, including one whose car was swept away as he delivered milk in the early morning hours, NHK national television said.
A middle school boy was missing after he was swept away by flood waters in a ditch, NHK added.
"The situation is extremely dangerous," wrote a Twitter user in Kochi, a city on the smallest main island of Shikoku, where the rain has been especially intense.
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