Rivers burst their banks in several parts of Japan and fishing boats were tossed up on land. Nearly 90 others suffered minor injuries. Two others were left comatose by injuries and one man was missing, NHK public television said. The third was killed when a landslide engulfed his home, media said. Three people were reported killed, hundreds of plane flights cancelled, and train services disrupted in the wake of Lan, which had maintained intense strength until virtually the time it made landfall west of Tokyo in the early hours of Monday.Īt least three people were killed, one a man in his 60s who was passing a building site when scaffolding collapsed on top of him and another a fisherman tending to his boat. TOKYO: A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to sea after largely sparing the capital, Tokyo.
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