Category Typhoon Alert

Red alert for Japan’s Kyushu island as landslides & flash floods loom, evacuation recommended to 20,000

Japan’s Meteorological Agency has issued a red-level weather alert for the Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Nagasaki prefectures of the island of Kyushu and recommended the evacuation of about 20,000 from southern Kyushu amid a looming threat of landslides and flashfloods as…

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