Severe flooding and landslides: Typhoon “Neoguri” raging on the Japanese home islands. At least seven people were killed, thousands of homes are without power. Now the whirlwind of Tokyo heading for.

The powerful typhoon “Neoguri” is taken in the morning on the southern Japanese main island of Kyushu. At least seven people were so far away by the cyclone in the death, told the television station NHK. Dozens more were injured.

Heavy rains had resulted in the southwest of the country to floods and landslides. Meanwhile, the typhoon weakened significantly, the authorities warn but continue before heavy rain and the threat of landslides.

In thousands of homes around the two main islands of Kyushu and Shikoku, the power went out. In the province of Yamagata rice fields, roads and houses were under water. Hundreds of thousands of people had been asked to get to safety. About 200 flights were canceled. Also, bus and train services were interrupted.

The storm is along the Pacific coast in a northeasterly direction, wind speeds decreased from more than 250 to a hundred miles an hour. Early Friday (local time) should the cyclone pull away the forecasts of the Meteorological Authority estimate that over Tokyo before “Neoguri” (Korean for “raccoon”) should turn towards the sea.

In the province of Nagano, a tributary of the Kiso River had turned into a raging tide of mud on Wednesday. The house a family of four was hit by a landslide, the twelve year-old son died. On Tuesday, the typhoon had a man torn from his fishing boat, another fisherman was killed in the province located on Kyushu Kumamoto. Other victims were drowned in rivers, ditches, or when swimming in the sea.

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