The tide of Typhoon Hagibis, one of the most powerful typhoons ever to hit Japan, weighed 66 people on Tuesday (October 15th), as rescue crews pursued their search for people in mud and debris. missing.
The typhoon touched down on Saturday night on the main island of Japan, Honshu, accompanied by gusts of about 200 km / h and preceded by torrential rains. A magnitude 5.7 earthquake shook Tokyo soon after.
According to the public television channel NHK, 15 people were still missing after Hagibis. More than 200 people were injured, some 138,000 homes were without water and 24,000 without electricity.
Several thousand police officers, firefighters and members of the army continued to search for possible survivors in the middle of the rubble following floods and landslides.
Precipitations on Tuesday morning and others planned for the evening were a new threat to the inhabitants, complicating the task of relief.
With AFP and Reuters