Rescue workers search for missing people at a landslide site caused by torrential rain in Tsunagi town, Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, yesterday. Torrential rain hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu yesterday, with at least one more river bursting its banks, as the death toll from three days of floods and mudslides rose to 44, including 14 at an old home. Evacuation orders were issued for more than half a million island residents, as well as evacuation advisories for tens of thousands more in western Japan, broadcaster NHK said.

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