Japan typhoon kills nine in elderly home

TOKYO: typhoon killed nine people in an elderly care home in northern after the third storm in two weeks

The bodies were discovered in - torrential rain over a wide area.

- dents to safety.

Agence- France Presse the nine

“The nearby Omoto river -

The nine were the only people

- ing was reserved for people with dementia and another 86 elderly residents and employees at the time.

Sakamoto, a spokeswoman for po

storm rose to 11 after an elderly body was discovered not far from Disaster Management Agency said.

Aerial footage showed a broad swathe of flooded land, with

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Japan’s Disaster Medical Assistance

Unusual path

The typhoon, with winds of over 160 kilometers ( 100 miles) an island of Hokkaido.

The typhoon was later reclas Japan at midnight, said the Japan Meteorological Agency.

- began in earnest.

In Hokkaido, the northernmost person who had been inside a car was missing in the town of Taiki,

At least three cars fell into rivers in other towns on the island after bridges collapsed, they said, stressing it was not known how many people were inside the vehicles.

water level is still very high with

- eastern Japan from the Pacific

- before moving northward across the archipelago.

Up to eight centimeters (three -

The typhoon’s landfall came at high tide, which exacerbated the

two other typhoons that hit Japan two deaths, the cancellation of

As of noon Wednesday it had combined with another similar storm in the Sea of Japan and was - at Japan’s weather agency.