Powerful Typhoon Hagibis ripped through Japan triggering deadly landslides and flooding rivers with hundreds of homes evacuated and left around 36 dead, 18 missing.
Hagibis crashed into the country on Saturday night, but brought hours of heavy rains even before it arrived.
Around 110,000 rescuers were scanning for survivors in Japan in the wake of super-tropical storm Hagibis. The storm was the worst typhoons in the country’s recent history.
The storm which throughout the end of the week dumped 40% of normal yearly precipitation on certain regions, caused in any event 25 waterways the nation over to blast their banks, prompting immense tracts of land being overflowed.
according to meteorological officials, with 21 rivers bursting their banks Hagibis dropped record amounts of rain for a period in some areas which was up to 216 kilometers per hours.
A portion of the sloppy waters in boulevards, fields and local locations have died down. Be that as it may, numerous spots stayed overflowed, with homes and encompassing streets canvassed in mud and covered with broken wooden pieces and flotsam and jetsam.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government will set up a special disaster team, including officials from various ministries, to deal with the fallout from the typhoon, including helping those in evacuation centers and boosting efforts to restore water and electricity to homes.
Helicopters and boats have been deployed in the rescue effort, including in Tokyo and the surrounding areas.
One woman fell to her death from a rescue helicopter.
The Tokyo Fire Department said the lady, aged 70, was unintentionally dropped 40 meters (131 feet) to the ground while being moved into a salvage helicopter in Iwaki city.
“The major typhoon has caused immense damage far and wide in eastern Japan,” said Yoshihide Suga, a government spokesman.
The Rugby World Cup coordinate among Namibia and Canada, booked in Kamaishi, northern Japan, was dropped as a careful step, yet coordinators reported Japan will play Scotland later on Sunday.
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