At least 11, mostly elderly, die in Japanese Typhoon

At least 11 people have been found dead in Japan, most of them elderly residents at a nursing home, after heavy overnight rain from Typhoon Lionrock left towns flooded across the country's north.

PA report that police discovered nine bodies in the town of Iwaizumi while checking another facility in the flooded neighbourhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at the Iwate prefecture disaster management division.