Tokyo, Sept. 23 (Jiji Press)–Two more people had been newly confirmed dead in the eastern Japan prefectures of Chiba and Kanagawa by Wednesday after heavy rain from Typhoon Dujuan, the 25th typhoon of the year, caused flooding and landslides. The death toll from the typhoon thus stood at nine as of 4 p.m., while five other people were missing. Members of the Self-Defense Forces, the prefectural police and local fire authorities continued their search operations. In Chiba, a resident of Inzai in his 60s was newly confirmed dead after a passerby made an emergency call about a submerged vehicle on a flooded road around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The man was found near the vehicle and later pronounced dead at a hospital. In Chiba’s Kamogawa, two men in their 70s and 60s believed to have been caught in a landslide remained missing. It also emerged that a person aged between 70 and 79 living in Nagara was unaccounted for. Embankments breached at two locations around Inbanuma, a major lake in northern Chiba, causing flooding in Narita and Sakae. According to the prefectural government, the breaches were the first since it began managing the lake in 1969. It is trying to lower the water level using pumps. In Kanagawa, a resident of Miura in her 30s was confirmed dead shortly after being found around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the first floor of an apartment building into which soil and sand had flowed. Fire department and other workers continued to search for a woman in her 70s living in Yokosuka and a Miura resident in her 20s. Their whereabouts were unknown after they were caught in landslides at their homes. END [Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]
