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| English.news.cn 2011-09-03 20:22:09 |
Editor: Yamei Wang
OSAKA, Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and five missing while over 40 were injured as a powerful typhoon made a landfall in Shikoku Island in western Japan on Saturday, according to local press reports.
A women appearing to be in her 30s was found dead in a river in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture Saturday morning. In the village of Totsukawa, Nara Prefecture, a 73-year-old man was found dead after his house was carried away by a landslide. Meanwhile, five people went missing in Tokushima, Hiroshima, Wakayama and Kagoshima prefectures.
Talas, the season's 12th typhoon, also disrupted air traffic centering on western Japan, with at least 375 domestic and 17 international flights canceled in the morning, and caused blackouts in about 76,300 households in the Kinki region and Shimane Prefecture, the reports quoted airlines and power utilities as reporting.
Japan railway train services were all suspended on Shikoku, while 34 bullet trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line had been delayed up to 46 minutes by 11 a.m. local time, affecting some 18, 000 people, after a temporary halt due to strong winds.
Because of the slow-moving nature of the typhoon, heavy rain and storms persist across a wide area of the Japanese archipelago, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, warning of mudslides and flooding.
The typhoon landed in Kochi Prefecture in Shikoku Island earlier in the day. As of 3 p.m. local time, the typhoon, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour near its center, was above the city of Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture, and slowly moving northward across Shikoku, the agency said.
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