HONG KONG: Hong Kong began a massive clean-up on Monday (Sep 17) after Typhoon Mangkhut raked the city, shredding trees and bringing damaging floods,…
HONG KONG: Hong Kong began a massive clean-up on Monday (Sep 17) after Typhoon Mangkhut raked the city, shredding trees and bringing damaging floods, in a trail of destruction that has left dozens dead in the Philippines and millions evacuated in southern China.
The death toll in the Philippines, where the main island of Luzon was mauled with fierce winds and rain, surged past 60 overnight as rescuers pulled more bodies from a huge landslide in the mountain town of Itogon.
National police spokesman Senior Superintendent Benigno Durana told AFP that 43 other people are missing, and more than 155,000 people remain in evacuation centres two days after the typhoon struck.
After tearing through Luzon and pummelling Hong Kong and Macau, the storm made landfall in mainland China late Sunday, with two reported dead in Guangdong province.
Authorities there said they had evacuated more than 3 million people and ordered tens of thousands of fishing boats back to port before the arrival of what Chinese media had dubbed the « King of Storms ».
In the high-rise city of Hong Kong, the government described the damage as « severe and extensive » with more than 300 people injured in Mangkhut which triggered the maximum « T10 » typhoon alert.
