HONG KONG, SEPT 6 – Super typhoon Yagi slammed into southern China’s Hainan island today, packing winds of more than 230 kilometers per hour in what is expected to be the strongest storm to hit the region in more than 10 years.
Hainan province has evacuated more than 400,000 people before the storm is expected to make landfall, while tens of thousands prepare to seek shelter in neighboring Vietnam.
Yagi has claimed at least 13 lives in the Philippines this week as it is still classified as a tropical storm, causing flooding and landslides on the main island of Luzon before intensifying into a super typhoon over the past few days.
The storm hit China today along the coast of Hainan, a popular holiday destination, and neighboring Guangdong province at 4:20pm local time, the news agency said. Xinhua which is run by the government, citing authorities. The hurricane was ‘equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane’, according to NASA Earth Data. – AFP
