Video: Powerful Typhoon Smashes Tanker Into Bridge In Northern Japan

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A merciless typhoon has blasted through western Japan, resulting in heavy rains and flooding. The main offshore international airport is under water and strong winds have blown a shipping tanker into a bridge. All land and air travel is disrupted.


According to Japanā€™s Kyodo News service, typhoon Jebi is the strongest storm type to make landfall in Japan since 1993.Ā  A 2.500-ton tanker that was mooring bashed into the side of a bridge connecting the airport to the mainland, damaging both the bridge and the vessel.

Japan’s coast is being battered by Typhoon Jebi, it was heading north across Japanā€™s main island of Honshu towards the Sea of Japan.Ā According to Japanese media over 700 flights have been cancelled. Train services were cancelled from Tokyo west to Hiroshima.

 

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