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129 dead or missing and 4.6 trillion won ($3.94 billion) in damage
"We need to wait and see but, based on the forecasts so far, the new typhoon is heading towards Japan," said an official at the Korea Meteorological Administration's typhoon forecasting unit.
The medium-sized typhoon was currently some 160 km (100 miles) south of the Japanese island of Okinawa and moving in a northerly direction at 24 km per hour (15 mph), said an agency statement. The wind speed near the eye of the typhoon had reached 93.6 kph (58 mph).
Typhoon Maemi, the strongest ever to hit South Korea, battered the country last Friday{09.12.03} and left 129 dead or missing and 4.6 trillion won ($3.94 billion) in damage.
�Reuters 09.19.03