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At least seven people killed and 14 missing after Typhoon Nanmadol swept across Japan earlier this week, dumping torrential rain that has wrecked homes, roads and rice terraces.
Heavy rains continue to batter western Japan for a third day. More than 1,100 people in Fukuoka and neighboring Oita prefectures are believed to be stranded, cut off by floods and landslides. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says 12,000 troops and rescuers are focusing on remote villages where hundreds are stranded.
Over one lakh residents were ordered to evacuate their homes while thousands of rescuers search for survivors. Parts of Fukuoka prefecture, on the island of Kyushu, were hit by nearly 600 millimeters of rain in 2 days, about double the amount that usually falls in all of July.