Ride to safety: Rescuers helping villagers to leave a flood affected village in Kumamoto prefecture by rubber boats. — AFP
Tokyo: Tens of thousands of rescue workers in Japan combed through the wreckage of houses shattered by deadly floods and landslides in a desperate search for survivors as the death toll rose and more torrential rain loomed.
At least 37 people are feared dead after record rains lashed areas of western Japan in the early hours of Saturday, causing rivers to break banks and flooding low-lying regions.
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