Typhoon Haishen arrives in South Korea, several dozen injured in Japan

The powerful typhoon Haishen arrived Monday in South Korea, after having made dozens of light injuries during its passage in the night from Sunday to Monday in the southwest of Japan, according to an initial report.

At around 9:00 a.m. Japanese time (00:00 GMT), the center of the typhoon touched the Busan region, South Korea's second largest city at the country's southeastern tip, generating wind gusts of up to nearly 200 km / h and putting heading north.

The typhoon seemed to have caused more fear than harm in Kyushu, the large island in southwestern Japan.

The public television channel NHK listed a few dozen minor injuries, mainly elderly victims of falls.

In the Nagasaki region, four people were injured by shards of a shattered window in the evacuation center where they had taken refuge, local firefighters told AFP.

Several hundred thousand homes were deprived of electricity Monday morning, according to the Kyushu Electric Power company, which raised fears of the risk of heatstroke due to lack of air conditioning.

Typhoon season is in full swing in Japan

The arrival of the typhoon had placed the island of Kyushu on high alert this weekend.

At the height of the storm, more than 7 million people had been affected by evacuation recommendations from the authorities, but instructions were not mandatory.

But authorities had also advised to avoid overloading evacuation centers due to the coronavirus, which prompted many residents to stay overnight in local hotels.

Despite its violence, the typhoon appeared to have done little material damage in Kyushu.

Air and rail traffic in the region, which had been massively disrupted the day before, was due to resume on Monday.

Typhoon season is currently in full swing in Japan.

Haishen is the second major tropical cyclone to hit the Japanese archipelago and then the Korean peninsula in just a few days.

Typhoon Maysak last week in particular caused extensive damage in North Korea, where leader Kim Jong Un ordered 12,000 elite members of his ruling party to help two devastated rural provinces, reported Sunday l official KNCA agency.

Maysak also caused the sinking in the East China Sea of ​​a livestock vessel, the Gulf Livestock 1, in the middle of last week.