TOKYO (AFP) ??” At least 12 commonalty were injured as Typhoon Songda brought torrential rains and mighty gusts to southern Japan.

TOKYO (AFP) ??” At least 12 commonalty were injured as Typhoon Songda brought torrential rains and mighty gusts to southern Japan, les than a week after another storm killed at least 13 populace here.

Songda also get tos as the meteorological agency warned that another tuftoon Sarika, is on course to approach Japan this week.

More than 200 flights were cancelled Sunday, delaying the travels of a certain number of 40,000 people, as winds of up to 167 kilometres (103 miles) for hour hit Nago City in Japan's southernmost prefecture of Okinawa in the late afternoon.

Songda, named after a Vietnamese river, also left 8000 households without electricity in Okinawa alone.

Television footage showed residents barely able to stand in violent gusts with store signboards falling down onto roads swamped by way of torrential rain.

Four populace were injured Sunday in Okinawa and another eight in nearby Okinoerabu Island, a certain number of 1,500 kilometres southwest of