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ABOUT 400,000 people were ordered or advised to leave their homes in southwest Japan yesterday as heavy rain pounded the area for a third day leaving 29 dead or missing, officials and media said.

At least 20 are dead and 400,000 are under evacuation orders after flooding ravaged south-west Japan over the past three days, report the BBC and AFP .

ABOUT 400,000 people were ordered or advised to leave their homes in southwest Japan yesterday as heavy rain pounded the area for a third day leaving 29 dead or missing, officials and media said.

Soldiers have been deployed in the south-west of Japan where unprecedented amounts of rain have caused floods and landslides.

At least four people are reported to have died, and 15 more are missing after parts of south-west Japan were hit by flooding.

About 250,000 people are ordered to leave their homes in south-west Japan after floods caused by heavy rain kill at least 20 people, officials say.

Almost a quarter of a million people have been ordered to leave their homes in southwest Japan as heavy rain pounded the area for the third day. Twenty people have already died.

At least 19 people have been killed as the heaviest rainfall on record pounded Japan’s southern island of Kyushu, causing flash floods and mudslides, the NHK public broadcaster reported on Friday.

About 240,000 people were ordered to evacuate from disaster-hit areas in southwestern Japan on Saturday, as torrential rains continued to hammer the region for the third consecutive day

Military airlift food by helicopters to stranded areas after torrential rain causes floods and mudslides.