Typhoon trouble
Residents flee winds
Tokyo — Thousands of residents in northern Japan were ordered to evacuate on October 8 as a powerful typhoon bore down on the island of Hokkaido, weather authorities and local media reported.
About 170 flights have been cancelled and scores of train services suspended, the paper said. The season’s 23rd typhoon, still several hundred kilometres east of Japan, had maximum sustained winds of 108kph and gusts of 162kph, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. — DPA