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WORLD NEWS Monday 28 october 2019

Floods, mudslides from heavy rain in Japan kill at least 10

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Fukushima. away. A passenger was still
TOKYO (AP) — Torrential While rains and floodwaters missing.
rain that caused flooding subsided, parts of Chiba Rain also washed out Fri-
and mudslides in towns were still inundated. About day's second round of the
east of Tokyo left at least 10 4,700 homes were out of PGA Tour's first tournament
people dead and added running water and some held in Japan, the Zozo
fresh damage in areas still train services were delayed Championship in Inzai city.
recovering from recent ty- or suspended. Saturday's second round
phoons, officials said Satur- In Midori district in Chiba, allowed no spectators.
day. mudslides crushed three Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
Rescue workers found the houses, killing three peo- held an emergency task
body of a person who ple who were buried un- force meeting Saturday
had gone missing in Chiba derneath them. Another morning and called for
prefecture after getting mudslide hit a house in "the utmost effort in rescue
caught up in floodwaters nearby Ichihara city, killing and relief operations." He
while driving. Another per- a woman. In Nagara and Vehicles are submerged in floodwaters after torrential rain in also urged quicks repairs of
son was unaccounted for Chonan towns, four people Sakura city, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, Saturday, Oct. 26, electricity, water and other
in Fukushima, farther north, drowned when their vehi- 2019. essential services to help re-
which is still reeling from cles were submerged. Associated Press store the lives of the disas-
damage by Typhoon Hagi- "There was enormous noise ter-hit residents.
bis earlier this month. and impact, 'boom' like said a Midori resident who In Fukushima, a woman The Prime Minister's Office
The death toll from the an earthquake, so I went lives near a crushed home. was found dead in a park said the average rainfall for
flooding included nine outside. Then look what "Rain was even more in- in Soma city after a report the entire month had fallen
people in Chiba and one in happened. I was terrified," tense than the typhoons." that a car was washed in just half a day Friday.q

Hong Kong weekend ends again with protest violence, tear gas

By KELVIN CHAN to include wider demands This month, an 18-year-old
HONG KONG (AP) — An for political reform. was charged with inten-
unauthorized anti-govern- Protesters, who called the tional wounding for a slash-
ment rally in Hong Kong latest rally over concerns ing attack on a riot officer.
quickly turned chaotic on about police conduct, At Sunday's rally, some pro-
Sunday as police used tear were met at the rally by a testers threw umbrellas and
gas to disperse protest- heavy police presence, other objects at riot police,
ers on a major tourist strip, which only ratcheted up who responded with tear
leading to hours of ugly the tensions. They yelled gas, bringing traffic on a
confrontations in the semi- "Gangster cops, death to main road to a standstill.
autonomous Chinese terri- your whole family." Protesters ripped up bricks
tory. Police have faced criticism from the sidewalk and scat-
Pro-democracy protesters for using heavy-headed tered them on the streets to
barricaded roads, hurled tactics including tear gas, block cars.
firebombs and set a sub- pepper spray, rubber bul- Some protesters report-
way entrance on fire as lets and a water cannon to edly took refuge across the
they used hit-and-run tac- subdue protesters. On oc- street in the luxury Penin- Police officers restrain protesters during a rally in Hong Kong on
tics against phalanxes of casion they have fired live sula Hotel, which promptly Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019.
riot police. rounds, wounding a teen- lowered its shutters. Associated Press
Protesters in Hong Kong age activist in the chest Many protesters moved
have taken to the streets last month. But police say to the nearby Chungking mally bustling Nathan Road aim of the rally — after po-
for more than four months, they're the ones who are Mansions, a focal point for tourist strip to a standstill. lice used a water cannon
in a movement sparked by victims of violence, having South Asian residents and They were showing sup- to spray a mosque and
concern about an unpop- been on the receiving end businesses, where they port for the former British bystanders with a stinging
ular China extradition bill of hurled bricks and fire- continued to face off with colony's ethnic and reli- blue-dyed liquid the previ-
that has since snowballed bombs. police, bringing the nor- gious minorities — another ous weekend.q