At least 9 dead as typhoon hits northern Japan
TOKYO- At least nine elderly people were killed when their nursing home was flooded in northern Japan, where Typhoon Lionrock dumped heavy rains, officials said Wednesday.
The bodies of all nine residents were found at a nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi in Iwate prefecture, when police were checking another facility in the flooded neighborhood, said Takehiro Hayashijiri, an official at a prefectural disaster management division.
Hayashijiri said the victims' identities and other details, including whereabouts of their caretakers, were not known. NHK TV said the nursing home was for the residents with dementia.
