Typhoon Dujuan: Death toll rises to 6, at least 6 others still missing
The death toll from a powerful typhoon that passed close to Japan's eastern seaboard rose to six on Tuesday with six other people unaccounted for, authorities said.
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Japanese firefighters conducting rescue operations on a flooded road in Sakura in Chiba Prefecture on Tuesday. (Photo Credit: Jiji Press/EPA)
Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The death toll from a powerful typhoon that passed close to Japan's eastern seaboard rose to six on Tuesday with six other people unaccounted for, authorities said.
Most of the deceased were killed by landslides while police, firefighters and the military were searching for missing people in the worst hit areas in Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures after Typhoon Dujuan battered the region with 120 mph winds and unleashed record rainfall.
A 64-year-old woman was killed after her home was engulfed in a landslide in Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture and an elderly couple remain missing after a separate landslide nearby hit their house.
Search and rescue workers were searching for two women also missing in nearby Miura city. One, a woman in her 20s, was in her first floor apartment when the building was inundated with mud and debris while the second woman was missing after the building she lived in was hit by a landslide in another area of the city.
One man was killed as he worked to clear a landslide from a road in the city of Sodegaura, 30 miles southeast of Tokyo on the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture.
At least 470 buildings were damaged in Kanagawa, Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures where more than 58,000 homes were without power with the Japan Meteorological Agency warning that record rainfall dumped by the storm system meant high river levels and saturated ground still posed a threat.
Almost 33 inches of rain was recorded in Oshima in Tokyo's Izu archipelago in the 48 hour period through 1:30 a.m. local time, 19 inches in Chiba's Ichihara city and Kimitsu city and almost 13 inches in parts of Tokyo.
Travel disruption continued for a second day with at least two rail operators canceling or suspending some of their services.
Roads leading to Japan Railways' Sakura Station in Chiba Prefecture remained under as much as three-and-half feet of water, trapping some residents in their homes a day after torrential rain caused the nearby Takasaki River to burst its banks.
Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefectures were also hit by power outages.
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