At least six dead in Japan as typhoon grinds on

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At least six ***** in Japan as typhoon grinds on

At least six people are ***** as Typhoon Shanshan creeps eastward through Japan, drenching large areas with torrential rain, triggering landslide and flood warnings hundreds of kilometres from the storm’s centre.

Footage on national broadcaster NHK showed homes with roofs partly shorn off while cars drove wheels-deep on flooded roads in the country’s southwest.

The storm crossed the coast in Kyushu on Thursday, bringing record levels of rainfall.

One person was missing and more than 100 had been injured, Japan’s ***** and Disaster Management Agency said.

More than 35,000 homes were without power in southern Kyushu’s Kagoshima prefecture, according to Kyushu Electric.

Shanshan, centred in the Pacific Ocean some 480km southwest of Tokyo after noon on Saturday, triggered heavy rain as far away as the northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido, despite being downgraded to a tropical storm on Friday.

Winds were gusting up to 90km/h.

Authorities have issued flood and landslide warnings around the country since the storm’s arrival, halting air and rail services and shutting factories.

The storm was forecast to weaken to a tropical depression at the weekend but was expected to continue to bring heavy rain, NHK reported.

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