More Than 100 Vehicles Are Engulfed in Flames as Typhoon Jebi Smashes Japan With Giant Waves and 135mph Winds – While a Million People Are Told to Evacuate During Worst Storm in 25 Years

Eleven people have been killed, a million are without power and thousands have been left stranded after a fierce typhoon lashed Japan.

Hundreds more were injured when homes and infrastructure along the west coast were devastated by Typhoon Jebi – Japan’s most powerful storm in a quarter of a century.

Kansai International Airport – one of the country’s busiest – was cut off when a 2,500-ton tanker smashed into the terminal’s sole access road meaning thousands had to spend the night in the partially flooded facility.

This morning, boats were ferrying stranded passengers to the mainland while footage showed a caravan of buses making a perilous trip across the damaged bridge – yards from the spot where the ship had crashed into the carriageway amid 135mph winds yesterday.

Runways were flooded as high waves washed into the facility on Tuesday, knocking out electricity and inundating buildings.

Jebi, or ‘swallow’ in Korean, has since slammed into Russia – causing flash floods on Sakhalin Island to Japan’s north.