Typhoon Khanun kills two in Japan’s Okinawa, injures at least 62

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Typhoon Khanun pounded Japan's southwestern Okinawa and Kagoshima prefectures with heavy rain and gusty winds for a second straight day on Thursday, leaving two dead and moving so slowly its damaging impact could be prolonged.

A tree lies uprooted on a street as typhoon Khanun batters the area in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo on August 2, 2023. Kyodo/ via REUTERS

An elderly woman in Okinawa died when her house apparently caught fire because she was using candles since the power had failed, NHK public television said. The other fatality was a man in his 90s crushed when a garage collapsed.With power lines down, roughly 166,000 households in Okinawa, a tropical island chain some 1,600 km southwest of Japan's capital Tokyo, had lost electricity as of Thursday morning, Okinawa Electric Power said - roughly 25% of the total, but down from Wednesday.

"Turning to the east isn't that odd, but turning so suddenly and sharply is," he said, declining to give his name in accordance with agency policy.

 

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