We have a new article updating this story: Landslides, Floods Kill At Least 40 in Western Japan
Residents of Hiroshima, Japan are bracing for more heavy rainfall Friday morning, 48 hours after a series of 31 landslides struck the city, killing at least 39 people and leaving dozens more missing.
Efforts to rescue the missing and trapped continued under fair skies Thursday, but heavy rainfall caused the search to be suspended Friday morning as new landslide warnings were issued for the city of 1.1 million residents. Heavy rains also prompted evacuation advisories Friday for over 100,000 residents of Fukuoka Prefecture, according to the Japan Times