Lionrock Typhoon made 11 victims in Japan

At least 11 people died and three people were missing in northern Japan after a powerful typhoon struck Wednesday, inundating large parts of this region, local media wrote quoted by the news agency DPA.

Nine of the 11 people killed were found in a nursing home in north- east Japan that seriously injured during the passage of Lionrock Typhoon, local police declared quoted by France Presse (AFP). Police discovered nine bodies in the town of Iwaizumi while checking another facility in the flooded neighborhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at the Iwate prefecture disaster management division. The identity of the victims and other details, including the whereabouts of their caretakers, were not known, Hayashijiri said. Japanese public broadcaster NHK said the home was for people with dementia.

At another nursing home, a rescue helicopter perched atop a flat roof of the facility, airlifting residents, each wrapped in a blanket and carried by their helpers."We're making a government-wide effort to assess the extent of damage," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters.

Lionrock, the 10th typhoon of this season in Asia, reached the coastal areas of Iwate Prefecture,a premiere since1951, when the Japanese Meteorological Agency (Japan Meteorological Agency) began monitoring typhoons. Between 20 and 30 typhoons in Asia are produced annually, about half of them by touching the Japanese archipelago.

Formed more than 10 days ago, Lionrock it has become the longest-lasting typhoon of those that have developed north of the 30th parallel north, breaking a 46-year-old record, according to the private Weathernews agency. The previous record-holding typhoon in that category was in 1970, which survived for nine days and six hours, Weathernews said on its website.