5 dead, 5 in serious condition due to water accidents across Japan

TOKYO, July 19 Kyodo -
Five people died, five others were in serious condition and one went missing
Monday following water accidents across Japan, as many people took to the
outdoors as temperatures soared to 35 C or higher in many parts of the
archipelago, according to authorities.
In Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, 6-year-old Jo Takahashi died after being
swept away at the mouth of a river which he was visiting with his family, while
Tomonori Kawano, a 33-year-old company employee, drowned at Tokyo's Kasai
Rinkai Park in a waterfront area along the Tokyo Bay.
Tomonori Kimura, a 17-year-old high school student, died after being hit by a
small boat while he was swimming in the sea near a fishing port in Ishinomaki,
Miyagi Prefecture.
Two men -- Kazunori Saiin, 72, and Norio Arai, 69 -- died while fishing for ayu
at respective rivers in Shiroishi, Miyagi Prefecture and Utsunomiya, Tochigi
Prefecture.
The five who were unconscious are two elementary school boys who nearly drowned
in rivers in Osaka and Tokyo prefectures, two junior high school students who
were swimming at beaches in Aomori and Niigata prefectures, and a 4-year-old
boy who fell into an irrigation ditch in Fukuoka Prefecture.
A man believed to be in his 60s is missing after someone reported that a man
was drowning at a beach in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Meanwhile, Kenichi Kawamura, an 18-year-old college student from Hiroshima who
was one of two men swept downstream in a river from a campsite straddling
Yamaguchi and Hiroshima prefectures Sunday, was found dead Monday in the river.
Police continue to search for Keisuke Inoue, a 24-year-old also from Hiroshima,
who remains missing after trying to rescue Kawamura.
==Kyodo