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13 killed, 10 missing in western Japan due to typhoon disaster
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KOBE, Aug. 10 Kyodo -
Thirteen people have died and 10 others are reportedly missing in floods and
landslides caused by heavy rain as a typhoon approached western Japan on
Monday, local police said.
The disaster caused by Typhoon Etau killed 12 people in Hyogo Prefecture and
one in Okayama Prefecture, and police and Self-Defense Forces personnel kept
searching for at least eight people that went missing in Hyogo and two in
Tokushima Prefecture.
Eleven of the deaths were confirmed amid severe damage and flooding from
swollen rivers in the Hyogo town of Sayo, including a 54-year-old man who was
found dead in a submerged car early Monday. On Sunday, a local observatory in
Sayo logged 326.5 millimeters of precipitation, a 24-hour record there.
The Hyogo prefectural government ordered about 10,000 households, including all
in Sayo, to evacuate. Officials of Sayo said one person went missing while
evacuating from his home to an elementary school in the town late Sunday night.
Some 80 residents of neighboring Shiso city were briefly isolated when three
bridges were swept away by flooding rivers but later rescued by SDF troops. A
death due to the typhoon was also reported in the Hyogo city of Asago.
In Okayama, mudslides destroyed two houses in Mimasaka near the border with
Hyogo and one person died.
A total of 10 people have been reportedly unaccounted for in western Japan,
including two elementary school students who were apparently swept into an
irrigation channel in Tokushima Prefecture, according to police and municipal
officials.
To deal with the disaster, the prime minister's office crisis management center
set up a liaison office. The Hyogo government decided to designate the case as
a disaster under the disaster relief law and other related laws to provide
support and allocate funds to cover the damage.
The weather forced Prime Minister Taro Aso to cancel plans to make a stumping
tour Monday to Hyogo and Tokushima prefectures in western Japan to back
candidates in the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election.
==Kyodo
2009-08-10 22:06:23
KOBE, Aug. 10 Kyodo -
Thirteen people have died and 10 others are reportedly missing in floods and
landslides caused by heavy rain as a typhoon approached western Japan on
Monday, local police said.
The disaster caused by Typhoon Etau killed 12 people in Hyogo Prefecture and
one in Okayama Prefecture, and police and Self-Defense Forces personnel kept
searching for at least eight people that went missing in Hyogo and two in
Tokushima Prefecture.
Eleven of the deaths were confirmed amid severe damage and flooding from
swollen rivers in the Hyogo town of Sayo, including a 54-year-old man who was
found dead in a submerged car early Monday. On Sunday, a local observatory in
Sayo logged 326.5 millimeters of precipitation, a 24-hour record there.
The Hyogo prefectural government ordered about 10,000 households, including all
in Sayo, to evacuate. Officials of Sayo said one person went missing while
evacuating from his home to an elementary school in the town late Sunday night.
Some 80 residents of neighboring Shiso city were briefly isolated when three
bridges were swept away by flooding rivers but later rescued by SDF troops. A
death due to the typhoon was also reported in the Hyogo city of Asago.
In Okayama, mudslides destroyed two houses in Mimasaka near the border with
Hyogo and one person died.
A total of 10 people have been reportedly unaccounted for in western Japan,
including two elementary school students who were apparently swept into an
irrigation channel in Tokushima Prefecture, according to police and municipal
officials.
To deal with the disaster, the prime minister's office crisis management center
set up a liaison office. The Hyogo government decided to designate the case as
a disaster under the disaster relief law and other related laws to provide
support and allocate funds to cover the damage.
The weather forced Prime Minister Taro Aso to cancel plans to make a stumping
tour Monday to Hyogo and Tokushima prefectures in western Japan to back
candidates in the Aug. 30 House of Representatives election.
==Kyodo
2009-08-10 22:06:23
