Typhoon Bolaven kills 48, injures over 50 in N. Korea

Typhoon Bolaven kills 48, injures over 50 in N. Korea

PanARMENIAN.Net - Typhoon Bolaven has killed 48 people in North Korea and left more than 50 others injured or missing, BBC News reported citing state-run KCNA news agency.

The typhoon "brought big damage" to North Korea and displaced more than 20,000 people, it said. Hundreds of trees were felled and power cut. The North was still reeling from floods in June and July that killed 169 people.

Typhoon Bolaven travelled up the western side of the Korean peninsula after causing transport chaos but limited damage on the Japanese island of Okinawa. In North Korea, the typhoon damaged thousands of homes and buildings and at least 50,000 hectares of farmland, KCNA said.

The previous floods left 400 missing and also made more than 212,000 people homeless, in addition to those killed.

The country asked the UN's World Food Program (WFP) for emergency food aid after the floods.

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