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Higher than 200,000 people have been ordered to evacuate areas of Japan threatened by an approaching storm.
Storm Haishen is predicted to intensify on Sunday, bringing heavy rain, storm surges and winds of larger than 100mph (160km/h).
It might switch earlier Kyushu on Sunday, and is predicted make landfall in South Korea on Monday.
It comes days after Storm Maysak, one in all many strongest storms to hit the realm in years.
The latest hurricane has led to the closure of factories, schools and firms all through western Japan. Tons of of flights and observe corporations have moreover been cancelled.
Japan’s authorities will most likely be holding an emergency cabinet meeting on Sunday to deal with the storm.
The place of Storm Haishen at midnight GMT on Saturday
The nation’s local weather firm talked about it was not liable to topic its most extreme hurricane warning, nevertheless added that residents ought to coach their “most extreme warning” for attainable doc rains and extreme waves alongside the coast.
Yoshihisa Nakamoto, director of the corporate’s forecast division, knowledgeable reporters that surging tides might set off flooding in low-lying areas, notably spherical river mouths.
On account of the storm, plenty of of lots of of people have been urged to maneuver to designated shelters in areas like schools and neighborhood centres. This incorporates all 36,600 residents of the city of Goto, in Nagasaki, the place the hurricane may hit straight.
Nonetheless native media report that some people have chosen to go looking out safety in native lodges to reduce the hazard of coronavirus spreading in crowded public shelters.
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Residents in coastal areas of south-western Japan have been bracing for the hurricane
Storm Haishen has moreover compelled Japan’s coast guard to droop its search for missing sailors from a cargo ship that sank all through Storm Maysak.
The Gulf Livestock 1 was carrying 43 crew members and 6,000 cows when it went missing on Wednesday.
Three crew members have been rescued alive.
