High winds hit power lines in Japan's popular tourist destination Okinawa, knocking out electricity to more than 200,000 households on Wednesday morning, as powerful and slow-moving typhoon Khanun neared the country's southwestern islands.
So far there has been one death reported and 11 people injured. A man was crushed under a collapsed garage and went into cardiac arrest, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. He was found dead, media reports said.
Nearly 700,000 people in the tropical prefecture, a popular tourist destination some 1,600 km southwest of Japan's capital Tokyo, were advised to evacuate, with the storm moving northwest at 10 kph , the Japan Meteorological Agency said. High winds had flipped cars over in several parking lots, TV footage showed. Rain battered empty streets as trees swayed and the wind kicked up waves in a flooded street. Some locations in Okinawa logged wind gusts of nearly 200 kph on Wednesday morning and had more than 250mm of rain in the past 24 hours, according to JMA.said about 210,000 households, or 34% of all houses covered, were experiencing power outages as of 1:00 p.m. Japan time , according to its website.
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