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24 dead or missing as Typhoon Meari lashes Japan
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-09-30 08:59
Typhoon Meari continued to lash Japan with heavy rain, leaving 12 people dead
and another 12 missing, weather officials and police said.
The season's 21st typhoon in the Pacific region, and the eighth to directly
hit Japan, landed on Kyushu early on Wednesday.
A 47-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter were found dead early
Thursday after a mudslide washed away their home in Niihama City, Ehime
prefecture, some 700 kilometres (430 miles) southwest of Tokyo.
Two neighbours who tried to rescue them were also killed, according to local
police.
Four others have also died in Ehime since Wednesday while another three were
killed in the central Japan prefecture of Mie.
A 70-year-old man was found dead Wednesday in a water-purification tank in
the premises of his food company factory in Kagoshima City on Japan's southern
main island of Kyushu after he left home to check the factory facilities.
Eight people are missing in Mie and another four in Ehime. More than 40
people were injured in southern and western Japan.
The storm weakened slightly to pack wind speeds of 82.8 kilometers (50 miles)
per hour Thursday morning, but the Meteorological Agency warned it can still
bring about heavy rainfalls that can trigger mudslides and flooding.
The typhoon was near Mizusawa City, 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of
Tokyo, early Thursday and moving northeast at accelerated speed of 60 kilometres
per hour.
It is expected to dissipate into a temperate depression later
Thursday.
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