Overview

• Record-breaking rain on Aug. 10–11 sent rivers in northern Kyushu over their banks, triggering flash floods and carrying residents into coastal waters.
• The Moji Coast Guard recovered a female body on Aug. 13 and a male body on Aug. 14 in nearly the same sea area before prefectural police confirmed on Aug. 15 that both were the adults in their 60s reported missing from Fukutsu City.
• The official death toll from the storm now stands at five, with three fatalities in Kumamoto Prefecture and two in Fukuoka Prefecture.
• Authorities suspect drowning in the Fukutsu cases based on initial findings by coastal and police investigators.
• Coordinated recovery operations by prefectural police and the coast guard continue as teams search for two people still unaccounted for in Kumamoto.