Dozens of people were injured in Hong Kong as the year’s most powerful storm passed close to the city and triggered flooding and landslides.
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Chinese state media reported the typhoon made landfall in China’s southern Guangdong province at around 5 p.m. local time.
The wind speed at the eye of the storm was around 90 mph (144km/h) at the time of landfall, down from around 120 mph when the storm passed near Hong Kong earlier in the day.
As a precautionary measure, Chinese authorities have evacuated around 1.9 million people residing in the path of the typhoon.
Earlier on Wednesday, heavy rains triggered by the storm in Taiwan’s eastern Hualien County caused a barrier lake to overflow, triggering severe flooding that killed at least 15 people, while 17 others remained missing.
