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Typhoon Mangkhut rips through China's Guangdong

2018-09-17 8 Dailymotion

A super typhoon is wreaking havoc in China's most populous province of Guangdong,... with winds of more than 1-hundred-60 kilometers an hour.<br />Ro Aram reports.<br /> <br /> Chinese media say two people were killed as Typhoon Mangkhut made landfall in southern China on Sunday.<br />It has already left about 60 people dead in the Philippines when it passed through there the day before. <br />Mangkhut was the strongest typhoon to hit the island nation this year.<br />Nearly two and a half million people have been evacuated from seven cities in Guangdong.<br /> In Hong Kong, authorities issued the maximum typhoon alert warning, advising residents to stay indoors to avoid flying debris.<br />The ferocious winds uprooted trees and smashed windows in office and residential buildings, some of which swayed in the gusts.<br />They also warned people to stay away from the Victoria Harbour landmark, where storm surges as high as three and a half meters battered the waterfront, throwing up live fish on to the streets.<br />Most shops and public services have been closed.<br />Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at Hong Kong International Airport and all high-speed rail services were also halted. <br />The gambling enclave of Macau, meanwhile, closed its casinos for the first time.<br />Some nearly 50,000 fishing boats in Guangdong were also called back to port.<br /> Mangkhut is expected to weaken into a tropical depression by Tuesday as it moves inland.<br />Ro Aram, Arirang News. <br />

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