A memorial service was held Sunday to commemorate the third anniversary of landslides that claimed the lives of 77 people in the western Japan city of Hiroshima. « I don’t want anyone else to become a victim or a person feeling like us, » said 77…
A memorial service was held Sunday to commemorate the third anniversary of landslides that claimed the lives of 77 people in the western Japan city of Hiroshima.
« I don’t want anyone else to become a victim or a person feeling like us, » said 77-year-old Takako Miyamoto, one of the speakers at the event. She lost her husband after torrential rain caused a series of landslides in residential areas close to mountains in the city early on Aug 20,2014.
« It is really painful and sad to have our lives ruined after losing everything, with our dear old houses destroyed, » said Miyamoto, who also sustained a serious injury in the landslide.
Touching on recent natural disasters in other places in Japan including torrential rain in Kyushu last month, she said she « sincerely hopes that no one else dies in a disaster. »
About 400 houses were either washed away or damaged in the Hiroshima landslides.
