(Bloomberg) -- Three people died and 23 were missing in floods after record rains burst the banks of two rivers in Japan in two days, public broadcaster NHK said.
The Shibuigawa river in Miyagi Prefecture, an area hit by the record 2011 tsunami, overflowed Friday morning, exacerbating flooding in an area already declared a state of emergency, according to NHK. This follows a breach Thursday by the Kinugawa river in the city of Joso, about 26 miles (42 kilometers) north of Tokyo.
The police and Self-Defense Forces were still rescuing people Friday afternoon. TV footage showed dozens of submerged houses in Miyagi, and emergency workers airlifting people from homes in danger of being swept away. Nearly 13,000 people had been evacuated, according to the Asahi newspaper, and the Fire and Disaster Management Agency said close to 1000 homes had been flooded.
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