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Thirty-eight Filipino seafarers were still missing in icy waters off southwestern Japan a day after their freighter sank on Wednesday when Typhoon “Maysak” slammed into the Korean peninsula.
The Panamanian-flagged Gulf Livestock 1 had a total of 43 crew, consisting of 39 Filipinos, two Australians and two New Zealanders, and was carrying 6,000 head of cattle from New Zealand to China when it sent a distress signal from the waters on Wednesday. by Amami Oshima. Island in southwestern Japan after being trapped by Typhoon Maysak.
“So far, it has been reported that a Filipino was rescued by the Japanese Coast Guard,” the Philippine Embassy in Tokyo said.
The Philippine Consulate General in Osaka said Japan’s Coast Guard will launch a second search and rescue mission amid the incoming typhoon. Flights were canceled or delayed and downed trees and other debris caused minor damage after Maysak, the ninth typhoon of the season, hit the peninsula with 170-kilometer-per-hour winds, according to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency.
It was the fourth to hit the peninsula this year and left some 120,000 homes without power in South Korea, authorities said.
One person was killed when winds broke a window in Busan, which suffered the brunt of the storm, Yonhap reported.
The peninsula normally sees only one typhoon a year, but another typhoon, “Haishen,” is brewing in southern Japan and is expected to hit the Korean coast on Sunday or Monday, the Land Observatory of the National Administration of Japan reported. Aeronautics and Space.
Unusual typhoon season
Some of the worst affected areas on Thursday were still counting the cost of last week’s Typhoon “Bavi” and one of the wettest monsoon seasons on record.
Parts of South Korea’s tourist island of Jeju have seen more than 1,000 millimeters of rain since Tuesday, according to the weather agency.
North Korea took the brunt of Typhoon Bavi, and for the second week in a row, state television broadcast rare live reports of storm surge and flooding, including in the coastal city of Wonsan. —WITH A REUTERS REPORT
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