Typhoon Ragasa has left more than a dozen dead in Taiwan and the Philippines and a trail of destruction in Hong Kong as one of the year’s strongest storms raced towards the southern Chinese coast.
The typhoon, which recorded maximum sustained wind speeds of 175km an hour on Wednesday afternoon, inundated low-lying areas of Hong Kong overnight. In Taiwan, 14 people were killed and 152 were missing, while four were reported killed in the Philippines.
Authorities in Guangdong, the southern Chinese province bordering Hong Kong, took precautionary measures, including evacuating nearly 1.9mn people, according to the Chinese Communist party’s official People’s Daily.
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