9million ordered to evacuate after killer typhoon's 145mph winds leaves causes landslides and flooding to Japan | The Sun
NINE million people have been ordered to evacuate after a “super typhoon” killed two and left 300,000 homes without power.
Gusts of 145mph and 16in of rain were recorded, with 87 people injured.
Nanmadol is the 14th Pacific typhoon to hit Japan this season — and by far the largest.
It sparked a level five alert, the highest on the country’s disaster scale.
The storm — a type of hurricane — wreaked havoc when it hit the country’s Kyushu island on Sunday night. It is expected to pass over the main island of Honshu in following days.
PM Fumio Kishida told people to “evacuate without hesitation”.
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State broadcaster NHK said one man was killed when his car was submerged in flooding. Another died buried in a landslide. One more person remains missing.
Trains and hundreds of flights have already been cancelled across much of the country as it prepares for further flooding and landslides.
Japan’s meteorological agency said Nanmadol had the potential to be worse than both Typhoon Jebi in 2018, which left 14 people dead, and Typhoon Hagibis in 2019, one of the largest ever recorded.
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