Typhoon Hagibis, which means “speed” in the Philippine language Tagalog, made landfall on Japan’s main island of Honshu on Saturday evening, bursting some river banks and threatening to flood low-lying Tokyo as it coincides with high tide. “Damage from floods and landslides is likely taking place already,” an agency official told a news conference carried by public broadcaster NHK. Heavy rains caused by Typhoon Hagibis flood a residential area in Ise, central Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo October 12, 2019. More than 150,000 households have lost power, including in Chiba, which was hit hard by typhoon Faxai a month ago, NHK said. Typhoon Ida, known as the “Kanogawa Typhoon” in Japanese, killed more than 1,000 people in 1958.

Source: bd News24 October 12, 2019 12:45 UTC