Storm: Typhoon hits Japan – dozens injured

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Typhoon hits Japan – dozens injured

Typhoon “Lan” made landfall in Japan – and caused severe devastation in some areas. photo

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Typhoon Lan brings heavy rain to parts of Japan. Tens of thousands of households were temporarily without electricity. And the national weather agency warns of possible landslides and flooding.

Typhoon “Lan” has parts Japan with heavy rains and at the end of the summer holidays the return traffic was severely hampered. At least 50 people were injured, according to local media on Tuesday evening (local time). Rivers swelled dangerously from the heavy rainfall, and some homes and cars were damaged. Occasionally mud entered buildings. Tens of thousands of households were temporarily without electricity. Rail and air travel was severely restricted when many Japanese were returning from their homes and vacation spots at the end of the Buddhist ancestral festival O-Bon.

The national weather agency warned of the risk of landslides and floods. In Kyoto and other places, tens of thousands of residents were called to get to safety. Bullet train operations between Nagoya and Shin-Osaka and between Shin-Osaka and Okayama were suspended all day. Hundreds of flights also had to be cancelled. In the early morning (local time) “Lan” made landfall on the Kii peninsula in western Japan. The seventh hurricane of the season moved toward the Sea of ​​Japan.

dpa

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