OREANDA-NEWS Japanese authorities evacuated 847.5 thousand people in three prefectures located on the island of Kyushu in western Japan due to the threat of floods and landslides caused by heavy rains. It is reported by Japan Times.

The decision to evacuate the population of a number of cities was made in the prefectures of Saga, Fukuoka and Nagasaki. According to Reuters, about 100 Japanese Self-Defense Forces soldiers have been sent to Saga Prefecture to help combat flooding.

As a result of bad weather, at least three people were killed: two men and one woman. The car of one of the men was washed away from the road by streams of water from two outgoing rivers in the Saga Prefecture. Another man in Fukuoka was washed away by a stream of water after he got out of the car. In the Saga, the railway station was flooded, traffic was disturbed.