Record Rain Kills Four, Strands 7,000 at Narita

At least four people are dead and one is missing after record-breaking rain flooded Japan's Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, overnight into Friday, stranding roughly 7,000 travelers at Narita International Airport.

Japan's Meteorological Agency called the deluge an "unprecedented level of heavy rain" and issued its highest-level warning — a level 5 alert for heavy rain and landslides — for Chiba for the first time.

The Guardian reported evacuation orders for more than 400,000 people and about 45,000 homes without power; the BBC reported more than 20,000 households lost power and more than 100,000 households were asked to evacuate Thursday. Al Jazeera put the outage figure at more than 22,000 households.

The Dead

The body of a man believed to be in his 60s or 70s was found floating on a flooded road in Ichikawa City, according to The Guardian. A 66-year-old woman was killed when her car was trapped in flood waters in Sakura City. Two others died after being unable to escape their cars.

The BBC reported four dead and five wounded, including a woman who died inside her submerged car and two people who collapsed in the streets and later died. The Associated Press, carried by The Independent and WKBN, reported one person still missing.