More than 2,000 people have had to leave their homes in the Russian region of Primorye, in the extreme east of the country, as a result of a powerful typhoon that has flooded some 4,300 homes, according to the first balances made by the local authorities.
‘Janun’ (called Khanun in English) is the sixth tropical storm of the 2023 typhoon season in the northwest Pacific Ocean and has been classified as “very strong” by the Japan Meteorological Agency where it impacted
The Ministry of Emergencies has confirmed this Sunday that the typhoon ‘Janun’, which had previously affected other Asian countries, has already left Russia after flooding large areas. At least 13 towns have been completely cut off by the floods, which have also caused power outages.
The central government has agreed to send heavy equipment to expedite recovery tasks, as well as a commission that will supervise the work ‘in situ’, according to the official news agency Interfax. The authorities have already detected a progressive improvement in the situation in the region.
The official Chinese media today collect a new balance that raises the number of victims (21 dead and 6 missing) left behind by ‘Janun’.
Heavy rains in China’s Shaanxi province have triggered landslides and torrents of mud and rocks have hit a neighborhood in the provincial capital, the city of Xian, where rescue services began searching for more survivors on Friday night.
North China, the passage of the typhoon has caused the evacuation of 23,000 residents in Shulan, a city in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin.
The residents are from 20 different municipalities and more than 4,000 of them have already been transferred to 62 shelters spread throughout the towns, according to a statement from the city’s flood control headquarters collected by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua.
Hanoun also wreaked havoc as it passed through Japan and Korea.
