After the passage of a typhoon, 200,000 residents called to evacuate for fear of flooding

Sheltered – Typhoon Kong-rey, which killed three people in Taiwan, returns to Japan accompanied by heavy rains

Nearly 200,000 residents of a city in western Japan were called to evacuate on Saturday by authorities who fear landslides and flooding due to heavy rains after the passage of a typhoon. The city of Matsuyama, in the department of Ehime, “issued a higher level alert, asking 189,552 residents in its 10 neighborhoods to evacuate and take shelter immediately,” a local official told AFP. city ​​manager. These evacuations are not obligatory.

According to the Japanese Meteorological Agency, “warm, humid air […] causes heavy rains accompanied by thunderstorms in western Japan”, partly because of the Kong-rey phenomenon, a powerful typhoon which hit Taiwan on Thursday, before being downgraded to a depression. The agency warned of possible landslides and flooding in western Japan on Saturday and in the east on Sunday.

Three dead and 690 injured in Taiwan

Due to rain, Shinkansen bullet train traffic was briefly suspended between Tokyo and the Fukuoka region in southern Japan in the morning. Typhoon Kong-rey caused the death of three people in Taiwan and left 690 injured, according to a latest report released on Saturday by the national fire agency.(…) Read more on 20minutes

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