京都きょうと 京きょう丹後たんご カヌー大会たいかいで90艇てい余よ転覆てんぷく 6人にん搬送はんそう 強風きょうふう影響えいきょうか

According to the police and fire department, just after 10 a.m. on the 17th, at a canoe competition held in Kumihama Bay, Kumihama Town, Kyotango City, northern Kyoto Prefecture, over 90 canoes that had gone offshore capsized, and six people were taken to the hospital.

They are all conscious.

According to the police, it was very windy at the time, so they believe the strong wind may have been a factor and are investigating the details.

According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, a strong wind advisory was in effect for northern Kyoto Prefecture, including Kyotango City, at the time. The agency had called for caution regarding strong winds through the evening of the 17th.

These photos were taken by a man living in Kyoto Prefecture, who stopped by the Kumihama Bay canoe competition venue during a trip and watched the canoe tournament a little after 9:30 a.m. on the 17th.

Multiple athletes are shown riding canoes while racing in the bay.

According to the man, the competition involved circling a course within the bay, but after a while, most of the participants stopped coming back, and people around started expressing concern.

Around 10 a.m., an announcement was made at the venue that the race would be suspended due to bad weather. Some of the athletes returned by motorboat, and it was reported that some of them looked cold.

On the shore, people who appeared to be athletes were explaining to those around them, saying things like, The waves were several meters high, Even if you just stayed still, water would get into the canoe and it would sink, and A lot of people sank.

The man said, The shore I was on was sunny and not very windy.

It was too far offshore to see the boat capsize, but I could see the whitecaps.

They said that, perhaps to prevent the athletes from getting hypothermia, blankets were being gathered from all sorts of places at the site.

In the footage taken of a park near the scene around 11:20 a.m. on the 17th in Kyotango City, Kyoto Prefecture, filmed by a man in his 70s who happened to be passing by, you can see firefighters preparing a small boat and oxygen tanks by the shore.

The man who took the photo said, About three or four ambulances kept coming into the park one after another, and I wondered what had happened.

In the park, tournament staff, firefighters, and others were busily going back and forth, and I could hear announcements calling out names to check on people’s safety.

Also, he said that small rescue boats were coming and going.