Two children were missing Saturday after a typhoon that has battered Japan for two days cut across the northern tip of the main island of Honshu and swerved into the Pacific Ocean, officials said.
The 12-year-old boys were swept away by high waves in the morning while swimming at the mouth of a river running into the Pacific, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) south-west of Tokyo, police said.
Authorities have been warning of high waves in the area due to strong winds caused by Typhoon Usagi as it moved north over the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Packing winds of up to 65 kilometres an hour and bringing heavy rains, the typhoon landed at Honshu's northern tip at about 1:00 pm (0400 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
It was moving at 40 kilometres per hour toward the Pacific and was expected to become a moderate depression by midnight, the agency said. Apart from the two missing, no fresh injuries were reported Saturday.
But Usagi, which means rabbit in Japanese, left 18 people injured when it cut across the southern island of Kyushu and the western tip of Honshu between late Thursday and early Friday.
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