7 dead, over 200 injured as typhoon hits western Japan, 5,000 stranded at airport

CLICK BELOW FOR LATEST UPDATE: 5,000 typhoon-stranded people being ferried out of Osaka's Kansai airportA powerful typhoon rip through western Japan on Tuesday, leaving at least seven people dead and more than 200 injured, while strong winds and high waves closed Kansai International Airport and caused a ship to smash into a bridge linking the airport with the main island.Winds of up to 209 kilometers per hour early Tuesday afternoon raked the airport, where one of the two runways and basement floor of a terminal building flooded and around 5,000 people were stranded, according to local au…READ FULL ARTICLE