Heavy rain halts search of Japan's Quake victims

 Bad weather forced rescue workers to suspend their search for two missing people in quake-hit Kumamoto Prefecture on April 21 and prompted evacuation orders that are increasing the numbers and distress of those displaced. 
Two people remain unaccounted-for in the village of Minami-Aso in central Kumamoto Prefecture, where the magnitude-7.3 earthquake on April 16 collapsed houses and triggered landslides. 
Many villagers are already about 100,000 people staying in evacuation centers in the quake-battered prefecture in southern Japan. 
But new evacuation orders were issued for Minami-Aso on April 21 because torrential rain and flooding were expected to hit the prefecture. About 1,000 residents of 500 households were told to flee. 
Around 130 residents who had sought shelter at a former elementary school building in the village were again ordered to pack up their belongings and relocate to a public gymnasium in the nearby town of Ozu in their cars or police vehicles.

Source: QNA