The Navy has deployed two of its ships into service to give help to typhoon-affected Japan. The Navy has deployed INS Sahyadri and INS Kiltan to give assistance to Japan.
Typhoon Hagibis made landfall south of Tokyo on Saturday, bringing heavy rains and causing floods. Nearly 26 people have been killed and hundreds injured due to the destruction.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi condoled the deaths due to the cyclone on Sunday. Meanwhile Japan Stareted to rescue operation at large-scale as the death toll from a ferocious typhoon climbed to at least 35. Public broadcaster NHK said 14 rivers across the nation had flooded, some spilling out in more than one spot.
The Tokyo Fire Department said a woman in her 70s was accidentally dropped 40 meters (131 feet) to the ground while being transported into a rescue helicopter in Iwaki city in Fukushima prefecture, a northern area devastated by the typhoon.
She was rushed to a hospital but died, a department official said. “The major typhoon has caused immense damage far and wide in eastern Japan,” government official Yoshihide Suga told reporters, adding that 27,000 military troops and other rescue crews were taking part in the operation.
News footage showed a rescue helicopter hovering in a flooded area in Nagano prefecture where an embankment of the Chikuma River broke, and streams of water were continuing to spread over residential areas. The chopper plucked those stranded on the second floor of a home submerged in muddy waters.
Aerial footage showed tractors at work trying to control the flooding and several people on a rooftop, with one waving white cloth to get the attention of a helicopter. Nearby was a child’s school bag. In another part, rows of Japan’s prized bullet trains, parked in a facility, were sitting in a pool of water.
A stretch of Fukushima, in the city of Date, was also flooded with only rooftops of residential homes visible in some areas, and rescuers paddled in boats to get people out. Parts of nearby Miyagi prefecture were also under water.
