Typhoon lashes South Korea after battering Japanese islands

A powerful typhoon damd buildings, flooded ros and kcked out power to thousands of homes in South Korea on Monday after battering islands in sourn Japan, killing one person and injuring dozens of ors. Korea Meteorological ministration said Typhoon Haishen was passing over waters off eastern coastal city of Sokcho on Monday afteron after barreling through South Korea's sourn and eastern regions.

typhoon was weakening, with its maximum winds measured at 108 kilometers (67 miles) per hour after blowing at 144 kilometers (80 miles) in morning, and was forecast to be downgred to a tropical storm within six hours.Japanese disaster manment officials in Kagoshima said a woman in her 70s died of a he injury after falling into a roside ditch while evacuating from a coastal town as Haishen lashed southwestern Japan over weekend with strong winds and rain.

Japan's Fire and Disaster Manment ncy said at least 38 or people were injured, five of m seriously. Schools and department stores were closed in Hiroshima and or cities in country's southwest.Dam caused by typhoon was less than feared because it took a path farr from coast and weakened more quickly than expected, officials said.

In South Korea, more than 100 homes were destroyed or flooded, while cars struggled to navigate flooded ros in Ulsan and or coastal cities such as Busan, Sokcho and Gangneung. Emergency workers scrambled to clean up toppled trees and damd traffic signs, buildings, port facilities and or structures.

At least one person was missing after getting swept away by water that filled a drain channel at a limestone mine in eastern coastal town of Samcheok.Ar person was found de in Busan, but officials said it wasn't immediately clear wher death was caused by typhoon.

At least five people were hurt, including one in Busan who sustained light injuries after a car flipped over in strong winds, Ministry of Interior and Safety said. storm also destroyed or sank around 80 fishing boats, and caused generating turbines at two nuclear reactors in souastern city of Gyeongju to automatically stop. leak of rioactive materials was detected.

Hundreds of flights in and out of sourn island province of Jeju and across mainland were canceled. Some bridges and railro sections were shut down, thousands of fishing boats and or vessels were moved to safety, and more than 2,600 residents in sourn mainland regions were evacuated due to possibility of landslides and or concerns. Workers,as of Monday afteron h restored power to 49,643 of 75,237 households that lost electricity in sourn mainland areas and Jeju.

Haishen, which means “sea god” in Chinese, plowed through Okinawa and or sourn Japanese islands over weekend. Traffic was still paralysed in places, bullet train service was suspended and most domestic flights in and out of airports in southwestern Japan were canceled Monday.

Regional officials in Miyazaki said rescue workers were looking for four people missing after a mudslide hit mountaius vill of Shiiba earlier Monday.A fifth person who was rescued at site was seriously injured.

Electricity was restored to thousands of homes in Japan, but more than 340,000 ors were still without power. Nearly 4 million people in Japan were still vised to evacuate as of Monday afteron. storm by late Monday was expected to reach rth Korea's rastern region, which was battered by Typhoon Maysak last week, inflicting furr pain on an ecomy ravd by U.S.-led sanctions, border closures from coronavirus pandemic and chronic food shorts.

rth Korean TV aired video of widespre flooding in eastern coastal city of Wonsan and nearby Tongchon, but country's state media didn't immediately report any casualties caused by Haishen. rth's state media earlier said leer Kim Jong Un visited typhoon-stricken areas, fired a top regional official for poor reiness, and promised to send 12,000 workers from Pyongyang to help with recovery efforts.

rth said Maysak destroyed more than 1,000 houses and inundated public buildings and farmland.Maysak damd ros and buildings and left at least one person de in South Korea. In dition, a livestock cargo ship sank off Japan's coast as Maysak passed.

Two of its 43 crew members were rescued and one body was recovered before search was halted because of Haishen. An aerial search resumed later Monday after Haishen passed area. ship was transporting 5,800 cows from New Zealand to China. 

(Im Credits :PTI)