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Added on the 05/10/2016 10:56:51 - Copyright : Eyewitness Video Online
Strong winds and big waves hit Sokcho, South Korea, as typhoon Haishen passes through. IMAGES
Scouts pack up and leave in buses in Buan-gun as organisers of the World Scout Jamboree asked host South Korea Monday to "urgently" evacuate tens of thousands of children from their campsite ahead of a typhoon, just days after a heatwave caused mass scout illnesses. IMAGES
Some 2,300 people have been quarantined in South Korea to prevent the further spread of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, which has already killed six people and infected at least 87.
Images from the town of Yufuin, in Japan's Oita Prefecture, as Typhoon Shanshan hits the country with torrential rain and strong winds. The typhoon is Japan's most powerful this year and one of the strongest at landfall in recent decades. IMAGES