{"id":9442,"date":"2024-09-23T11:45:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2024-09-23T11:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T06:00:15","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-6-after-heavy-rain-pounds-japans-ishikawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/death-toll-rises-to-6-after-heavy-rain-pounds-japans-ishikawa\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 6 after heavy rain pounds Japan&#8217;s Ishikawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Unprecedented rainfall has left six people dead in Japan&#8217;s Ishikawa Prefecture, with 10 remaining unaccounted for as rescue work continued, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>Among the victims, two men were discovered dead on Sunday near a tunnel where landslides had trapped workers. Another two elderly women were found dead on Saturday, buried under mud and debris, according to public broadcaster NHK, citing information from local police.<\/p>\n<p>A man rescued near the downstream area of a river was confirmed dead and one more fatality was reported as a home was engulfed by a landslide.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are still searching for two people, one in Noto Town and one in Suzu City, who were swept away by a river, the NHK reported.<\/p>\n<p>There are eight others whose safety is unconfirmed, bringing the number of people unaccounted for to 10, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Torrential rain pounded Ishikawa from Saturday, a region still reeling from a major earthquake at the start of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s weather agency on Sunday morning downgraded its heavy rain emergency warning for parts of Ishikawa Prefecture to a warning, but authorities called for continued vigilance against possible floods and landslides.<\/p>\n<p>The record-breaking rain has isolated 115 villages due to landslides, and concerns are growing about the prolonged impact on water supply and infrastructure, according to the NHK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unprecedented rainfall has left six people dead in Japan&#8217;s Ishikawa Prefecture, with 10 remaining unaccounted for as rescue work continued, local media reported. Among the victims, two men were discovered dead on Sunday near a tunnel where landslides had trapped workers. Another two elderly women were found dead on Saturday, buried under mud and debris, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9444,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions\/9444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}