Hong Kong: A powerful typhoon has killed two people and injured at least 92 on southern China’s Hainan island, authorities said Saturday, with heavy rain and winds causing power outages in more than 800,000 homes.
Typhoon Yagi is currently on track towards northern Vietnam over the Gulf of Tonkin on Saturday, with Vietnamese authorities describing it as “one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade.” The typhoon hit the city of Wenchang in Hainan on Friday afternoon, with winds of up to about 245 km/h (152 mph) near its center.
China’s national meteorological authorities said Yagi was the strongest autumn typhoon to make landfall in China.
Some 420,000 residents were relocated in Hainan before the typhoon made landfall in the province. Another half-million people in Guangdong province were evacuated before Yagi made a second landfall in the province’s Xuwen county on Friday night.
The Haikou meteorological observatory downgraded its typhoon signal from red to orange on Saturday as the typhoon moved away from the city.
In Hong Kong, more than 270 people were forced to seek refuge in temporary government shelters on Friday, and more than 100 flights in the city were cancelled due to the typhoon. Heavy rain and strong winds toppled dozens of trees, and trading at the stock exchange, banking services and schools was suspended.
Yagi was still a storm when it moved off the northwest Philippines into the South China Sea on Wednesday, leaving at least 16 people dead and 17 others missing, mostly in landslides and widespread flooding and affecting more than 2 million people across the archipelago.
More than 47,600 people were displaced from their homes in Philippine provinces and classes, work, inter-island ferry services and domestic flights were disrupted for days, including in the densely populated capital region, Metropolitan Manila.
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