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Strong typhoon makes landfall on Shikoku Island
TOKYO, Sept. 3 Kyodo -
A powerful typhoon made landfall Saturday on Shikoku Island, leaving two people dead and at least five missing, while injuring over 40 and forcing some 3,200 to evacuate in 16 prefectures in western to central Japan, the weather agency and local officials said.
Typhoon Talas also disrupted air traffic centering on western Japan, with at least 375 domestic and 17 international flights canceled in the morning, and caused blackouts in about 76,300 households in the Kinki region and Shimane Prefecture, the airlines and power utilities said.
In Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, on Shikoku, mudslides blocked roads at five locations, isolating 249 people in 145 households.
Japan Railway train services were all suspended on Shikoku, while 34 bullet trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line had been delayed up to 46 minutes by 11 a.m., affecting some 18,000 people, after a temporary halt due to strong winds.
Because of the slow-moving nature of this year's 12th typhoon, heavy rain and storms persist across a wide area of the archipelago, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, warning of mudslides and flooding.
As of 3 p.m., the typhoon, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour near its center, was above the city of Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, and slowly moving northward across Shikoku, the agency said. The atmospheric pressure at its center was 985 hectopascals.
A women appearing to be in her 30s died after she was found in a river in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, around 6:20 a.m. and taken to a hospital in a state of cardiac arrest.
In the village of Totsukawa, Nara Prefecture, Takao Tanaka, 73, was found dead after his house was carried away by a landslide.
In Tokushima Prefecture, Sumako Sogabe, 75, was swept away by a swollen river in the early morning on her way to an evacuation center near her home in Miyoshi, and Kiyoshi Iwahashi, 83, went missing after going outside to check the situation. Three others are also missing in Hiroshima, Wakayama and Kagoshima prefectures.
Rainfall topped 1,250 millimeters over 72 hours in a village in Nara Prefecture, the highest on record there, and measured record levels of 800 to 900 mm in Tokushima, Kochi, Tottori and Wakayama prefectures in western Japan.
A powerful typhoon made landfall Saturday on Shikoku Island, leaving two people dead and at least five missing, while injuring over 40 and forcing some 3,200 to evacuate in 16 prefectures in western to central Japan, the weather agency and local officials said.
Typhoon Talas also disrupted air traffic centering on western Japan, with at least 375 domestic and 17 international flights canceled in the morning, and caused blackouts in about 76,300 households in the Kinki region and Shimane Prefecture, the airlines and power utilities said.
In Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, on Shikoku, mudslides blocked roads at five locations, isolating 249 people in 145 households.
Japan Railway train services were all suspended on Shikoku, while 34 bullet trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line had been delayed up to 46 minutes by 11 a.m., affecting some 18,000 people, after a temporary halt due to strong winds.
Because of the slow-moving nature of this year's 12th typhoon, heavy rain and storms persist across a wide area of the archipelago, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, warning of mudslides and flooding.
As of 3 p.m., the typhoon, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour near its center, was above the city of Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, and slowly moving northward across Shikoku, the agency said. The atmospheric pressure at its center was 985 hectopascals.
A women appearing to be in her 30s died after she was found in a river in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, around 6:20 a.m. and taken to a hospital in a state of cardiac arrest.
In the village of Totsukawa, Nara Prefecture, Takao Tanaka, 73, was found dead after his house was carried away by a landslide.
In Tokushima Prefecture, Sumako Sogabe, 75, was swept away by a swollen river in the early morning on her way to an evacuation center near her home in Miyoshi, and Kiyoshi Iwahashi, 83, went missing after going outside to check the situation. Three others are also missing in Hiroshima, Wakayama and Kagoshima prefectures.
Rainfall topped 1,250 millimeters over 72 hours in a village in Nara Prefecture, the highest on record there, and measured record levels of 800 to 900 mm in Tokushima, Kochi, Tottori and Wakayama prefectures in western Japan.
