At least 24 are dead from the snowfall that Japan has been facing for two weeks, while the Japanese Meteorological Service (JMA) today issued a warning of a new wave of bad weather.

Aomori Prefecture, in the northern part of the country, has counted at least 9 deaths associated with the snowfall This winter. The dead include 6 people who cleaned their roofs. At the same time in the prefecture of Niigata, in Central Japan, authorities recorded the deaths of at least 12 people due to snow.

Three workers in a secluded mountain resort in the Fukushima area were also found dead on Tuesday after crossing a snowy mountain to maintain maintenance work on a thermal source facilities, according to Japanese media.

The areas that were particularly affected by snowfall-which caused mainly problems in transport and deaths-are along the coast of the Japanese sea, opposite Russia and North and South Korea.

‘I am here for ten years and I had never seen this’, He stated a resident of the secluded area of ​​Sukayu in Aomori Prefecture on the Japanese television network TBS.

“If we look at the volume of snow that falls daily, this is not an episode that is an exception. However the snow has accumulated ‘, explained.

The JMA Meteorological Office Office today issued a warning of the possibility of a snowstorm that could be on alarm levels.

Meanwhile in the city of Tsunan in the prefecture of Niigata, the falling snow is estimated at more than 3.5 meters.

In the last few days, hundreds of vehicles were left trapped for hours at various points along highway due to snow.