Landslides, floods kill 66 as typhoon lashes Japan

JAPAN’S deadliest typhoon in more than two decades killed 66 people, news reports said yesterday as rescuers searched frantically for 22 still missing in floods and landslides.

Many people died in landslides set off by the heavy rains from Typhoon Tokage that pounded much of Japan on Wednesday. Others died in flooding or were swept away by waves which lashed the coast.

Others who were saved from flooding by rescue workers in helicopters and rubber rafts were left shaken by the experience.