At least 33 dead in Japan after Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo on Saturday.
TOKYO — Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops were deployed across Japan to rescue people stranded in flooded homes Sunday, as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to as high as 33. One woman fell to her death as she was being placed inside a rescue helicopter.
The Tokyo Fire Department said a woman in her 70s was accidentally dropped 131 feet to the ground while being transported into a rescue helicopter in Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture, a northern area devastated by the typhoon. Japanese media tallies were higher. Kyodo News agency reported that 33 people died and 19 were missing.
Aerial footage showed tractors at work trying to control the flooding and several people on a rooftop, with one waving a white cloth to get the attention of a helicopter. Nearby was a child's school bag. In another part of Nagano, rows of Japan's prized bullet trains, parked in a facility, were sitting in a pool of water.
Among the reported deaths were those whose homes were buried in landslides. Other fatalities included people who got swept away by raging rivers. He acknowledged that Japan's power grids need to be strengthened so people in disaster areas can rely on timely information.
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