Tokyo: More than 20 people were killed by powerful Typhoon Hagibis, local media reported, a day after the ferocious storm slammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrophic flooding. The storm moved off land yesterday morning and while it largely spared the capital, it left a trail of destruction in surrounding regions. Landslides and flooding claimed more lives overnight, and the toll climbed higher after sunrise yesterday as the scale of the devastation wrought by Hagibis became clear. The dead included a municipal worker whose car was overcome by floodwaters and two Chinese crew members aboard a boat that sank overnight in Tokyo Bay. More than 110,000 homes were still without power by yesterday evening, with others experiencing water outages.

Source: The Star October 14, 2019 00:11 UTC