Fierce rainfall in parts of Japan has set off landslides and caused roads to collapse
Tropical Depression Talas unleashed fierce rainfall Saturday in parts of Japan, setting off landslides, halting trains and killing a man after he crashed his car into a pond.
In another part of Shizuoka, a road collapsed from the heavy rainfall, and rescue efforts were under way, they said. Japanese media reports said one man managed to crawl out of a truck that got stuck but another man was missing. Rivers swelled in Shizuoka’s Hamamatsu city, where video shared on social media showed cars wading through watery streets. News footage showed an underground passage for pedestrians at a train station flooded with muddy water. Because trains stopped temporarily, about 1,000 people were stranded at an arena in Shizuoka where a concert was held Friday night.