Japan has been worstly hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years, causing at least seven deaths and injured 200 others. Typhoon Jebi brought about landfall in western areas, triggering heavy rain and reports of winds up to 172km/h (107mph).
When the Typhoon Jebi created devastation, thousands of air passengers in Japan have spent the night stranded in an island airport. As the typhoon drove across large parts of Western Japan approximately 3,000 people were trapped at the terminal of Kansai international airport which is located on a manmade island in Osaka Bay.
According to a local official, group of about 160 elementary school pupils have been isolated since Tuesday in a facility where they were staying on a school trip in Kyoto following trees knocked down by a strong typhoon blocked roads around it.
Typhoon Jebi led to landfall around noon Tuesday, bringing strong gusts of wind and driving rain across Japan’s western coast.
Sensational videos of the storm are going viral on various social media platforms on Tuesday where it was seen that winds toppling trees, lifting cars, and battered scaffolding and wrecking buildings.
Jebi, which means “swallow” in Korean, was briefly a super typhoon and is the most powerful storm to hit Japan in 25 years. It triggers, massive rains, landslides, floods and scorching heat that killed hundreds of people this summer in Japan.
Releasing torrential rain and winds of more than 200km/h (125mph), Typhoon left debris of its destruction as it passed over the western cities of Osaka, Kobe, and Kyoto before moving into the Sea of Japan late on Tuesday.
As the storm wrecking many areas , evacuation advisories were issued for more than a million people by the fire and disaster management agency. Whereas 16,000 people spent the night in shelters across 20 prefectures.