( CNN ) -- Three people died after Typhoon Kompasu hit central South Korea Thursday morning , the Yonhap News Agency reported . Kompasu also halted much of the metropolitan area 's subway service , toppled trees and caused widespread power outages , the agency said . Airlines canceled or diverted domestic and international flights . According to Yonhap : A flying roof tile killed an 80-year-old man in Seosan , South Chungcheong province . A broken tree branch fatally struck a 37-year-old man in Bundang , on the southern outskirts of Seoul . And an electrical engineer was electrocuted while trying to restore electricity in Mokpo , 255 miles ( 410 kilometers ) south of Seoul . iReport : Kompasu whips through South Korea . Kompasu also unleashed torrential rain and strong winds on North Korea Thursday , according to the state-run KCNA news agency . The typhoon was expected to further devastate crops in secretive North Korea , which has been gripped by food shortages . As of late afternoon Thursday , Kompasu was carrying maximum winds of 55 miles per hour and had moved away from both Koreas .
Debris kills two people and a third is electrocuted . - A man in his 20s dies after being hit by falling debris while riding an electric scooter on the roof of a building in downtown Shanghai. N. Korea has already struggled to feed its people .