This assessment could further increase, because the authorities checked if two other dead were linked to the typhoon and they were also looking for a missing person, according to the government spokesperson.
Le Monde with AFP
The Nanmadol typhoon’s passage in Japan left four people dead and more than 100 injured during the weekend, government spokesperson said on Tuesday, September 20. The typhoon touched earth on Sunday evening near Kagoshima, in the southwest of the country, and caused strong winds and heavy rains on the big island of Kyushu before moving northeast along the coast of the Japan Sea.
Having gradually lost speed, it was demoted Tuesday morning in extraropical cyclone. But in Kyushu, the storm overturned trees, broken with windows, inflated with rivers and spilled the equivalent of a month of rain in twenty-four hours on certain parts of the department of Miyazaki, where two dead were confirmed.
Government spokesperson Hirozaku Matsuno said that two other people had been found “without vital signs”, a term used in Japan before a death was officially certified by a doctor.
The intensity of storms accentuated by climate change
This assessment could further increase because the authorities checked if two other dead were linked to the typhoon and they were also looking for a missing person, added Mr. Matsuno.
Furthermore, at least 114 people were injured, including 14 seriously, said government spokesperson. Early Tuesday, around 140,000 households were still deprived of electricity in the country, mainly in Kyushu.
The typhoon season culminates from August to September in Japan, where it is marked by heavy rains likely to cause sudden floods and deadly landslides. Scientists believe that climate change increases the intensity of storms and makes extreme weather phenomena more frequent.