After the devastating Floods and landslides in Japan, was continued on Monday, the feverish search for missing people. The rescue forces are working tirelessly said in the Morning, a authorities spokesman in the Region of Kumamoto. Until Sunday, the authorities had confirmed the death of 16 people. After at least a dozen other Missing persons was looking for. Tens of thousands of employees of the emergency services scoured the ruins of houses.
14 of the deaths came, according to the local authorities in a flooded nursing home in the municipality of Kuma killed, two others were buried by landslides. Heavy rains had triggered on Saturday in the southwestern Region of Kumamoto and Kagoshima on the island of Kyushu Flooding and landslides. The river Kuma stepped on the shore, the water masses continued cracking cars and bridges and flooded roads and towns.