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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"t least 26 people were killed by powerful
\nTyphoon Hagibis, local media reported Sunday, a day after the ferocious storm
\nslammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrophic flooding.<\/p>\n
More than 100,000 rescuers, including 31,000 troops, were working into the
\nnight to reach people trapped after torrential rain caused landslides and
\nfilled rivers until they burst their banks.<\/p>\n
The destruction forced the Rugby World Cup to cancel a third tournament
\nmatch, though a key Japan-Scotland fixture was ruled safe to play.<\/p>\n
The storm moved off land on Sunday morning, and while it largely spared the
\ncapital, it left a trail of destruction in surrounding regions.<\/p>\n
The government put the death toll at 14, with 11 people missing, but local
\nmedia said at least 26 people had been killed, and at least 15 were still
\nunaccounted for.<\/p>\n
Rivers overspilled their banks at nearly a dozen locations, including in
\ncentral Japan\u2019s Nagano, where a levee breach sent water from the Chikuma
\nriver gushing into residential neighbourhoods, flooding homes up to the
\nsecond floor.<\/p>\n
Military and fire department helicopters winched survivors from roofs and
\nbalconies in several locations. In Iwaki City, Fukushima, a rescue went
\ntragically awry when a woman died after falling while she was being winched
\nto safety.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, rescue workers carried out an hours-long boat operation to
\nevacuate hundreds of people from a retirement home in Kawagoe, northwest of
\nTokyo, which was flooded up to its top floor.<\/p>\n
One elderly woman wearing an orange life vest was brought out from a boat
\non the back of a hard-hat wearing rescuer. Others were hoisted onto
\nwheelchairs and pushed along a muddy shore on arrival by boat.<\/p>\n
Hagibis smashed into the main Japanese island of Honshu on Saturday night
\nas one of the most violent typhoons in recent years, with wind gusts of up to
\n216 kilometres per hour (134 miles per hour).<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018Please do your best\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n
The storm claimed its first victim even before making landfall, when high
\nwinds flipped a vehicle, killing its driver.<\/p>\n
Landslides and flooding claimed more lives overnight, and the toll climbed
\nhigher after sunrise on Sunday, as the scale of the devastation wrought by
\nHagibis became clear.<\/p>\n
Bodies were retrieved from submerged homes and vehicles, from raging
\noverflowing rivers, and from buildings buried in landslides.<\/p>\n
The dead included a municipal worker whose car was overcome by floodwaters
\nand two Chinese crew members aboard a boat that sank overnight in Tokyo Bay.<\/p>\n
Four of the crew were rescued, but authorities were still searching for
\nanother six.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government will do its utmost,\u201d Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, vowing
\nthat rescue efforts would run through the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease do your best,\u201d he told a disaster management meeting.<\/p>\n
More than 110,000 homes were still without power by Sunday evening, with
\nothers experiencing water outages.<\/p>\n
At the storm\u2019s peak, more than seven million people were placed under non-
\ncompulsory evacuation orders, and over 135,000 people were still in
\ngovernment shelters by Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
The storm prompted the Japan Meteorological Agency to issue its highest-
\nlevel rain disaster warning, saying \u201cunprecedented\u201d downpours were expected.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u2018I don\u2019t know where to start\u2019 \u2013<\/p>\n
\u201cThe water came up higher than my head in the house,\u201d Hajime Tokuda, a
\nfinance professional living in Kawasaki near Tokyo told AFP.<\/p>\n
He moved to his family\u2019s home nearby, but that flooded too and they had to
\nbe rescued by boat.<\/p>\n
In Saitama\u2019s Higashi Matsuyama city, northwest of Tokyo, rice and flower
\nfarmers were counting their losses, with water submerging warehouses full of
\nfreshly harvested produce.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe never had a flood like this before in this neighbourhood,\u201d said one
\nfarmer, who declined to give his name.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know where to start cleaning this mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
The storm brought travel chaos during a long holiday weekend in Japan,
\ngrounding flights and halting local and bullet train services.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, train services began resuming and operations also slowly
\nrestarted at the two airports serving the capital, although many flights were
\ncancelled.<\/p>\n
But some lines remained halted, with aerial footage in Nagano showing rows
\nof bullet trains partially submerged by flooding.<\/p>\n
The storm also caused havoc for the sports world, delaying Japanese Grand
\nPrix qualifiers and forcing the cancellation of two Saturday Rugby World Cup
\nmatches.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, organisers cancelled a third fixture \u2014 Namibia-Canada \u2013
\n\u2013 but gave the go-ahead to three others including a crunch Japan-Scotland
\ngame in Yokohama, near Tokyo.<\/p>\n
Scotland faced elimination if the match was cancelled and had threatened
\nlegal action if it was not played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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