More than four thousand residents of Japan's Chiba Prefecture, adjacent to Tokyo, remain without electricity after a storm struck the country on September 20, when a typhoon swept along the Pacific coast, infohub.kz reports.
According to News of Japan, fatalities have been recorded in Chiba and Kanagawa prefectures. The total death toll currently stands at 13, with the most recent case registered in Kanagawa.
A 20-year-old woman died there after being pulled from a building damaged by a landslide caused by the severe weather. Rescuers were unable to save her. It later emerged that she had previously been listed as missing.
According to TASS, more than 4,000 residents of Chiba Prefecture are without power. In addition, landslides at five locations have severed one of the local railway lines, which had been used by 54,000 people daily.
Emergency services continue to deal with the aftermath of the storm. Chiba Prefecture is still experiencing prolonged power and water outages. TEC-FORCE specialists, together with the Japan Construction Contractors Association, the Self-Defense Forces, and Tokyo Electric Power, are clearing a damaged section of road in the city of Togane that caused the outages, removing fallen trees. The work aims to restore electricity and water supply as quickly as possible.
Search operations in the Miura and Yokosuka areas involve firefighters, police, the 31st Regiment of the Ground Self-Defense Force, and local fire brigades, as well as specialists from Yokosuka and Miura, who are continuing round-the-clock searches without pause.