2 More Confirmed Dead in Japan after Typhoon Dujuan

Tokyo, Sept. 23 (Jiji Press)--Two more people had been confirmed dead in the eastern Japan prefectures of Chiba and Kanagawa by 8 a.m. Wednesday after heavy rain from Typhoon Dujuan, the 25th typhoon of the year, caused flooding and landslides.

The death toll from the typhoon thus rose to nine, while four other people remained missing. Members of the Self-Defense Forces, the prefectural police and local fire authorities continued their search operations.

In Chiba, a resident of Inzai in his 60s was newly confirmed dead after a passerby reported about a submerged vehicle on a flooded road around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. The man was found near the vehicle and later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Search efforts were still underway in Chiba's Kamogawa for two men in their 70s and 60s believed to have been caught in a landslide.

In Kanagawa, a resident of Miura in her 30s was confirmed dead shortly after being found around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday on the first floor of an apartment building into which soil and sand had flowed.

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