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Typhoon Neoguri bears down on Japanese mainland
Typhoon Neoguri bore down on the Japanese mainland Wednesday after slamming into the southern Okinawa island chain, killing two people in the country and leaving a trail of damage, AFP reported.
Packing gusts of up to 180 kilometres (110 miles) per hour, the typhoon could hit the southern main island of Kyushu as early as Thursday before moving east along the Japanese archipelago, the national weather agency said, according to the report.
Officials said Neoguri would bring torrential rainfall and warned of the risk of flooding and landslides after the storm -- which has weakened from a super typhoon -- forced half a million people to seek shelter in Okinawa on Tuesday, the report added.
By Wednesday afternoon the typhoon was some 400 kilometres (250 miles) away from the west coast of Kyushu and was churning north in the East China Sea at 25 kilometres per hour.
The weather agency warned that as much as 300 millimetres (12 inches) of rain could fall on Kyushu in just 24 hours through noon Thursday. (From news reports)