About 80 households in Kagamiishi, Fukushima Prefecture, have been isolated due to floodwater from the Abukuma River since around 1 a.m. Sunday, according to the Fukushima prefectural government and the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry's Fukushima Office of River and National Highway.
Areas inundated in the town include the Narita district.
According to the town government, members of the Sukagawa Fire Department used boats to conduct rescue operations for the affected residents in the isolated households.
Along the Abukuma River, flooding also occurred in the following Fukushima Prefecture cities: at two sites in Koriyama and one each in Sukagawa, Motomiya and Date.
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