Super Typhoon Yagi slams into southern China after deadly pass through Philippines

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6 September 2024 at 2:10 am·1-min read

Super Typhoon Yagi on Friday made landfall in southern China, barrelling into the Hainan and Guangdong provinces. The storm is the biggest to hit Asia in more than a decade and has led to hundreds of thousands of evacuations and schools and businesses to be shut. Yagi claimed more than a dozen lives when it swept through the northern Philippines earlier this week.

Super Typhoon Yagi slammed into southern China’s Hainan island on Friday, bringing windspeeds of over 230 kilometres (143 miles) an hour in what is set to be the strongest storm to hit the region in more than a decade.

Hainan province evacuated more than 400,000 people ahead of the storm’s expected landfall, while tens of thousands prepared to seek shelter in neighbouring Vietnam.

Yagi killed at least 13 people in the Philippines this week when it was still classified as a tropical storm, triggering floods and landslides on the main island of Luzon before strengthening into a super typhoon over the past few days.

The storm made landfall in China on Friday along the coast of Hainan, a popular holiday destination, and neighbouring Guangdong province at 4:20 pm local time (0820 GMT), the state-run Xinhua news agency said, citing authorities.

The typhoon “is equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane”, according to NASA Earth Data.

Trading at Hong Kong’s stock exchange was suspended on Friday and day schools were closed.

(AFP)

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