The most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in decades has left more than 30 people dead and 19 missing.<br />As Typhoon Hagibis moved in a northerly direction before exiting the island nation late Sunday,... it left a trail of destruction,... including to the nuclear-stricken prefecture of Fukushima.<br />What's alarming: Bags containing waste materials generated during decontamination work in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant found in the nearby river.<br />Lee Minsun has our top story this morning.<br />The season's 19th typhoon, Hagibis, slammed into Japan over the weekend causing dozens of casualties and leaving many regions flooded.<br />Hagibis also swept across Fukushima, home to the nuclear plant that melted down following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.<br />According to Japanese media, the city of Tamura in Fukushima Prefecture said Sunday that an unknown number of bags containing contaminated waste from the plant were lost.<br />Officials say heavy rains carried the bags to the nearby Furumichi River.<br />That river connects to another river and flows into the Pacific Ocean.<br />The city retrieved ten bags from the river but they haven't been able to confirm how many went missing out of the more than 2-thousand 6-hundred bags kept in a temporary storage.<br />Each bag weighs between 700 kilograms and one-point-three tons.<br />They contain grass and wood collected from areas that were heavily contaminated by radiation.<br />City officials insist contaminated waste did not leak out of the bags and they will carefully check the storage and management records.<br />However, this isn't the first time something like this has happened.<br />In 2015, contaminated waste from the Fukushima plant went missing in similar circumstances when the region was hit by torrential downpours.<br />Lee Min-sun, Arirang News.<br />
