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TOKYO, Aug 31 (KUNA) -- Powerful Typhoon Lionrock brought heavy rain that caused floods in northern and northeastern Japan, leaving at least 11 dead and five others missing, police said Wednesday.
In Iwaizumi Town, 450 kilometers north of Tokyo, police found nine bodies from a flood-hit nursing home for elderly people. Separately, one body was found near a river in Iwaizumi Town, another in Kuji City, northeastern Japan.
Lionrock, the season's 10th typhoon, made landfall on the northeastern region and moved across the Japanese archipelago on Tuesday evening before it was downgraded to an extratropical cyclone early Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
More than 410,000 people evacuated or were instructed to evacuate in northern and northeastern Japan. The typhoon-triggered flood also destroyed or swept away several bridges in the affected area. The northeastern region was severely hit by the March 2011 earthquake-tsunami disaster. (end)
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