Typhoon Trami hits Japan... millions urged to evacuate

Arirang News 2018-10-01

Views 1

Millions of people in Japan have been ordered to evacuate as Typhoon Trami makes landfall there.
Over 80 injuries have been reported so far,... with hundreds and flights and train services being cancelled or suspended.
Lee Seung-jae reports.
Typhoon Trami is lashing Japan with heavy rain and strong winds,... causing power outages, and forcing evacuations from areas still recovering from recent typhoons.
Osaka's Kansai International Airport, which was flooded by a typhoon last month,... has shut its runways.
Airlines have canceled more than 12-hundred flights,... and most local trains and bullet trains in central and western areas suspended operations on Sunday.
Evacuation orders and advisories were issued for millions of households nationwide,... as more than 37-thousand households in and around Tokyo were without power.
A woman in her 60s has been reported missing in Miyazaki Prefecture,... after she was washed away in a paddy irrigation channel,... with more than 80 people reported injured, as well.
Japan's weather agency has issued warnings of landslides and flooding from possible storm surges.
Typhoon Trami was near Nagoya as of 10PM Sunday night and forecasters expect it to move past Tokyo by early Monday.
In September,... Typhoon Jebi,... the most powerful storm to hit Japan in 25 years,.. brought some of the highest tides since 1961,... flooding Kansai International Airport,... taking it out of service for days.
Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.

Share This Video


Download

  
Report form