2 More Confirmed Dead in Japan after Typhoon Dujuan

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

The death toll from the typhoon thus stood at nine as of 4 p.m., while five other people were 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 made an emergency call 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.

In Chiba's Kamogawa, two men in their 70s and 60s believed to have been caught in a landslide remained missing. It also emerged that a person aged between 70 and 79 living in Nagara was unaccounted for.

Embankments breached at two locations around Inbanuma, a major lake in northern Chiba, causing flooding in Narita and Sakae.

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