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| A man looks at a flooded street with submerged vehicles in Nagoya, Aichi prefecture, in central Japan, as Typhoon Roke approached on September 20, 2011. [AFP] |
Radio Australia News, 21 September 2011, Four people have been killed by Typhoon Roke after it made landfall in Hamamatsu in central Japan, before moving through the major island, Honshu.
Two more people are also missing, including a young boy who disappeared on his way home from school.
Authorities in Nagoya in central Japan have urged more than 1.3 million residents to leave their homes, fearing that heavy rain from Typhoon Roke will cause two rivers to burst their banks.
The typhoon is packing winds of more than 140-kilometres an hour, and it dumped a-metre of rain on one community on the southern island of Kyushu.
The storm has forced the suspension of train services in the capital and the grounding of hundreds of aircraft, with 45-thousand passengers left stranded.
The typhoon is expected to pass the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, with workers at the site rushing to cover shattered reactor buildings with tarpaulins.
There are fears heavy rainfall could inundate the crippled plant, contaminating flood water with radiation. Read More
Two more people are also missing, including a young boy who disappeared on his way home from school.
Authorities in Nagoya in central Japan have urged more than 1.3 million residents to leave their homes, fearing that heavy rain from Typhoon Roke will cause two rivers to burst their banks.
The typhoon is packing winds of more than 140-kilometres an hour, and it dumped a-metre of rain on one community on the southern island of Kyushu.
The storm has forced the suspension of train services in the capital and the grounding of hundreds of aircraft, with 45-thousand passengers left stranded.
The typhoon is expected to pass the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, with workers at the site rushing to cover shattered reactor buildings with tarpaulins.
There are fears heavy rainfall could inundate the crippled plant, contaminating flood water with radiation. Read More
(Source : Radio Australia News)
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