AFP, TOKYOMore than 20 people were killed by Typhoon Hagibis, local media reported yesterday, a day after the ferocious storm slammed into Japan, unleashing unprecedented rain and catastrophic flooding. The storm moved off land yesterday morning, and while it largely spared Tokyo, it left a trail of destruction in surrounding regions. One elderly woman wearing an orange life vest was brought out from a boat on the back of a hard-hat wearing rescuer. Landslides and flooding claimed more lives overnight, and the toll climbed higher after sunrise yesterday, as the scale of the devastation wrought by Hagibis became clear. More than 110,000 homes were still without power by yesterday evening, with others experiencing water outages.

Source: Taipei Times October 13, 2019 15:56 UTC