Typhoon Hagibis: Elderly woman falls to her death from rescue helicopter

A woman in her 70s has died after she was accidentally dropped 40m (131ft) from a helicopter rescuing her from an area devastated by Typhoon Hagibis.

Helicopters, boats and thousands of troops have been deployed to rescue those stranded in flooded homes, and at least 33 people in Japan have lost their lives.

The Tokyo Fire Department has admitted that the pensioner had not been strapped in properly while being airlifted in Iwaki city in Fukushima.