Six dead after record rain causes floods in Japan's Ishikawa

Ten people are missing after the cities of Wajima and Suzu were badly hit by flooding over the weekend.

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The cities of Wajima and Suzu, which are still recovering from a deadly earthquake that devastated the area on 1 January, are among the hardest hit by the deluge, which began on Saturday and continued until noon local time (03:00 GMT) on Monday.

On Sunday, both cities saw twice the amount of rainfall they typically receive in September in an average year, local media reported.

Dozens of rivers burst their banks, cutting off roads and isolating more than 100 communities across the prefecture, the reports added.

Two of the people who died were found near a landslide-hit tunnel in Wajima. One of them was a construction worker carrying out road repairs.

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