81 dead and scores missing in Japan floods

FLOODS and landslides have killed at least 81 people in Japan after torrential rain unleashed by a typhoon.

Scores were still missing after families were buried alive and there was a race against time to rescue those trapped by rising floodwaters.

Some 2,000 stranded people were saved in the city of Kurashiki, 90 miles east of Hiroshima, including 170 patients and staff from a hospital.

Some two million people were set to be evacuated amid fears of the worst weather disaster in decades.

Japan’s weather chiefs said: “This is a situation of extreme danger.” RESCUE Flood waters in Kurashiki