KYODO NEWS VIA AP
The roof of a car repair garage stretched over a sidewalk after Typhoon Haishen hit Fukuoka in southwestern Japan on Monday.traffic on the islands of southern Japan before heading to South Korea.
COURTESY NOAA
Seoul – A strong typhoon destroyed buildings, flooded roads and shut down thousands of houses in South Korea after whipping islands in southern Japan, and more than 20 people were injured.
The Korean Meteorological Administration warned of “very heavy rains and very strong winds” when Typhoon Haishen, with maximum winds of 78 mph, made landfall on Monday in the port city of Ulsan in the southeast of the country.
The weather firm said the typhoon, the third to spank the peninsula in the same number of weeks, would weaken and probably degrade to tropical typhoon in 24 hours.
Cars struggled to navigate flooded roads in Ulsan and other coastal cities such as Busan, Sokcho and Gangneung.Emergency services rushed to cover trees and overturned signs, buildings and other broken structures.
The Ministry of Interior and Security said a user in Busan was injured after a car overturned with strong winds, but not without delay provided additional reports on the victims.
At least 318 flights to and from the province of the southern island of Jeju and across the continent to Korea Airports Corp were cancelled.
Some bridges and railway sections were closed, thousands of fishing and other vessels were sheltered and more than 1,600 citizens from the southern regions of the continent were evacuated by landslides and other problems.
By Monday morning, 11,523 of the 17,620 families who had lost strength in the southern regions of the continent and Jeju had been restored strength.
Haishen, who “god of the sea” in Chinese, crossed Okinawa and other islands in southern Japan over the weekend.
Traffic is still paralyzed in some places, high-speed trains were suspended and maximum domestic flights to and from airports in southwestern Japan were cancelled on Monday.
Japan’s chimney control and crisis firm said at least 20 people, two of them seriously, were injured.
Until Monday morning, about a million houses were still shut down.
Regional officials in Miyazaki said rescuers were searching for four other people missing after a landslide hit the mountain village of Shiiba on Monday morning.A fifth user who rescued from the site was seriously injured.Kyushu region.
Typhoon is expected to hit north-east Korea on Monday night, which hit Typhoon Maysak last week, causing additional suffering in an economy devastated by U.S. sanctions, border closures after the coronavirus pandemic, and chronic food shortages.
Northern state media said leader Kim Jong Un visited typhoon-affected spaces, fired a senior regional official for poor preparation, and pledged to send 12,000 Pyongyang employees to assist in recovery efforts.The North said Maysak had destroyed more than 1,000 houses and flooded public buildings and farmland.He did not report the casualties caused through Haishen.
Maysak broke roads and buildings and killed at least one user in South Korea.In addition, a shipment of farm animals sank off the coast of Japan at the Maysak crossing.Two of his 43 team members were rescued and a painting uncovered before the search was stopped.because of Haishen.Shipping with 5,800 cows from New Zealand to China.
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