Floods Pour Into Areas of Kyushu, Japan After Tropical Storm

Floods Pour Into Areas of Kyushu, Japan After Tropical Storm
Japanese soldiers help local residents evacuate from flooded area in Asakura, Fukuoka prefecture. STR/AFP/Getty Images
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Floods washed over parts of Kyushu in southwestern Japan. Three people were found dead and 20 are still missing. Three hundred people are stranded, waiting for rescue.

Twenty inches of rain fell in parts of Fukuoka Prefecture, a northern part of Kyushu. The torrential rain fell for 12 hours, accumulating to about 1.6 times the amount of rain that usually falls in the entire month of July.

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