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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 8 sepTember 2020
Typhoon lashes South Korea after battering Japanese islands

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and down, thousands of fish-
MARI YAMAGUCHI ing boats and other vessels
Associated Press were moved to safety, and
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — more than 3,000 residents in
A powerful typhoon dam- the southern mainland re-
aged buildings, flooded gions were evacuated due
roads and knocked out to the possibility of land-
power to thousands of slides and other concerns.
homes in South Korea on Workers by Monday eve-
Monday after battering is- ning completed restoring
lands in southern Japan, power to 75,237 house-
killing one person and injur- holds that lost electricity in
ing dozens of others, before the southern mainland ar-
weakening as it passed eas and Jeju.
North Korea. Haishen, which means "sea
The Korea Meteorologi- god" in Chinese, plowed
cal Administration down- through Okinawa and
graded Typhoon Haishen other southern Japanese
to a tropical storm Mon- islands over the weekend.
day night as it made land- Traffic was still paralyzed in
fall near the North Korean places, bullet train service
coastal city of Hamhung. was suspended and most
During its period as a ty- domestic flights in and out
phoon, Haishen packed of airports in southwest-
maximum winds of about High waves crash a shore as Typhoon Haishen approaches in Busan, South Korea, Monday, Sept. ern Japan were canceled
7, 2020.
130 kilometers (80 miles) per Associated Press Monday.
hour as it barreled through Electricity was restored to
South Korea's southern department stores were while trying to cross a small traffic signs, buildings, port thousands of homes in Ja-
and eastern regions in the closed in Hiroshima and river on a tractor in the facilities and other struc- pan, but more than 340,000
morning. other cities in the country's southeastern town of Uljin. tures. others were still without
Japanese disaster man- southwest. At least five people were The storm also destroyed power. Nearly 4 million
agement officials in Ka- Damage caused by the ty- hurt, including one in Busan or sank around 80 fishing people in Japan were still
goshima said a woman in phoon was less than feared who sustained light injuries boats, and caused gener- advised to evacuate as of
her 70s died of a head in- because it took a path far- after a car flipped over in ating turbines at two nu- Monday afternoon.
jury after falling into a road- ther from the coast and strong winds, the Ministry of clear reactors in the south- The storm by late Monday
side ditch while evacuat- weakened more quickly the Interior and Safety said. eastern city of Gyeongju was expected to reach
ing from a coastal town as than expected, officials At least 110 homes were to automatically stop. No North Korea's northeast-
Haishen lashed southwest- said. destroyed or flooded, while leakage of radioactive ern region, which was bat-
ern Japan over the week- In South Korea, at least two cars struggled to navigate materials was detected. tered by Typhoon Maysak
end with strong winds and people were missing — one flooded roads in Ulsan and Hundreds of flights in and last week, inflicting further
rain. Japan's Fire and Disas- after getting swept away other coastal cities such as out of the southern island pain on an economy rav-
ter Management Agency by water in a drainage Busan, Sokcho and Gang- province of Jeju and across aged by U.S.-led sanctions,
said at least 38 other peo- channel at a limestone neung. Emergency workers the mainland were can- border closures from the
ple were injured, five of mine in the eastern town of scrambled to clean up top- celed. Some bridges and coronavirus pandemic and
them seriously. Schools and Samcheok and the other pled trees and damaged railroad sections were shut chronic food shortages. q

Police probe 153 cases of horse mutilations around France

PARIS (AP) — French inves- owners against taking jus- tioned in the Haut-Rhin re-
tigators have made nu- tice into their own hands. gion of eastern France re-
merous arrests since a ma- The minister spoke after vis- garding a late August at-
cabre series of attacks left iting the owner of a horse tack in Burgundy, after the
scores of horses mutilated who was a victim of the head of an animal refuge
or killed this year and have mysterious attacks in the went after two men slash-
opened more than 150 Oise region, north of Paris. ing two of his ponies. Nico-
investigations into such He refused to comment las Demajean's arm was
cases, the interior minister on the only arrest reported slashed as he wrangled
said Monday. Interior Min- in the French media hours with one of the attackers
ister Gerald Darmanin an- earlier in eastern France. and police produced a
nounced the start of night Knives have been used composite drawing based
patrols by gendarmes to to slash the horses and, on his description.
reassure horse owners and in some cases, mutilate The man held for question-
to try to nab attackers. He them, with organs some- ing is reportedly 50 and Horses stand in an enclosure at the location of a meeting
said police have opened times removed. A horse's has no connection to hors- between local authorities, elected officials and horse breeders
153 investigations on the face was disfigured in es, according to the Le Pa- whose animals have been victims of mutilation attacks in
horse attacks, about 30 of one case and blood was risien newspaper. Plailly, northern France, Monday, Sept. 7, 2020.
Associated Press
them concerning deaths drained in another. Often For authorities, it's clear
or "extremely violent inju- a right ear is cut off like a there are numerous at- investigators don't know if in copycat style or answer-
ries." There are no known trophy. tackers going after horses the attackers are carrying ing a morbid "challenge"
breakthroughs. He warned A man was being ques- around the country but out cult-like rituals, acting on social media.q