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Monkey King Typhoon Slams Into Japan
Tokyo (AFP) Aug 18, 2006 Typhoon Wukong slammed Friday into the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, triggering landslides, cancelling dozens of flights and leading to three deaths and three injuries, officials said. Wukong, which means Monkey King in Chinese, hit Miyazaki prefecture some 900 kilometers (550 miles) southwest of Tokyo early Friday and moved slowly across the island, lashing it with heavy rain, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Some 110 people were evacuated from the path of Wukong, the 10th typhoon of the season but the first to make landfall on the main Japanese islands. Police said Friday they found the body of a 60-year-old angler in Kanagawa prefecture, just southwest of Tokyo, a day after he went missing near a swollen river. A surfer and another angler died Thursday in rough weather conditions caused by Wukong, police said. Three people were injured Friday in Kyushu including a 66-year-old man in Nagasaki prefecture in the island's north who broke his hip after falling from the roof where he was fixing gutter downpipes, a police spokesman said. The typhoon also caused seven landslides, cut roads at three points and damaged three houses on the southwestern island, he said. As of 7:45 pm (1045 GMT), the typhoon was located over Nagasaki prefecture, packing winds up to 83 kilometers (51 miles) per hour. It was moving north at a "very slow speed," sweeping over Kyushu, the agency said, adding that it was likely to head toward South Korea. Japan Airlines cancelled at least 31 flights while All Nippon Airways called off 34 flights. Several local train services were suspended on Kyushu. Passenger ships were also cancelled between Fukuoka, Kyushu's biggest population center, and South Korea's second largest city Busan.
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Oslo (AFP) Aug 18, 2006Norway's whalers are unlikely to fill their quota before the end of the hunting season on August 31, officials said Friday, due to poor weather, high oil prices and dwindling demand for whale meat. "They can't fill the quota this year," Harvard P. Johansen, deputy director-general of the Norwegian ministry of fisheries, told AFP. |
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