More than 100 dead or missing after typhoon as rescue work continues (JAPAN)

AsahinaKimi

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Wed Sep-07-11 09:12 AM
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More than 100 dead or missing after typhoon as rescue work continues (JAPAN)

TOKYO —

A deadly typhoon has left at least 100 people dead or missing after ravaging western Japan, officials said Wednesday, heaping yet more misery onto a nation trying to recover from the March tsunami.

Talas brought torrential rain and strong winds when it made landfall Saturday, swelling rivers and triggering landslides that swept away buildings in the southwestern island of Shikoku, Kii peninsula and the Chugoku region.

At least 50 people have been confirmed dead in nine prefectures.

With more than 50 people still missing, the storm looks likely to be Japan’s deadliest since October 1979, when a powerful typhoon claimed 115 lives, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.

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Wed Sep-07-11 09:33 AM
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1. Terrible! What an awful time of it Japan has had lately. :^(

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