11 People were dead and three were missing after Typhoon Lionrock blitzed northern Japan on Wednesday. The typhoon caused blackouts, property damage and fatal widespread flooding that caught some municipalities by surprise.
The typhoon, the 10th of the season and the first to hit Tohoku’s Pacific coastline, made landfall Tuesday in ‘Ofunato’, ‘Iwate’ Prefecture. By the time it reached Aomori racing northward at 60 kph with a heavy barometric pressure, maximum sustained winds of 108 kph and 162-kph gusts.
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Iwaizumi in Iwate prefecture is one of the worst-affected towns where nine people have died after being trapped in a care home when a nearby river overflowed while another 18 residents remained missing.
Another three persons were missing in northern Hokkaido island after being swept away by an overflowing river, including a 28-year-old man whose car fell into a river due to a damaged bridge. Local authorities and firefighters were still searching for the missing.
Meanwhile, the Japan Meteorological Agency announced the beginning of another typhoon, Namtheun, near the archipelago.According to reports from IANS, Namtheun, the 12th typhoon of this year in the Pacific, is currently south of Okinawa and is moving north-west with winds of up to 90 kph.
The storm was expected to reach southern Kyushu island between Saturday and Sunday and cross the southwestern region of the main Japanese island of Honshu, before continuing northward toward China.
So, the coming time is not looking good for the Japan and the residents of the coastal areas have to go through some really very tough period in the future.
