Five dead, hotels facing two-day shutdown after Typhoon Hato knocks out power in Macau
Two hospitals received 153 injured people; power and water supply also under threat as floodwaters rise and people are stranded in car parks
Five people died, at least 153 were injured and two were still missing in Macau on Wednesday night, while the city also endured a power shutdown for several hours, after Typhoon Hato battered the former Portuguese enclave.
A 30-year-old man who was hit by a wall which collapsed in the strong winds and a 62-year-old man who fell from his home on the 11th floor of an apartment building were among the dead.
Separately, a 45-year-old mainland Chinese tourist was killed in a hit-and-run incident, according to the Macau government.
Another man, 48, and a woman, 44, drowned after water flooded the basement of a shop.
Four people went missing in Fai Chi Kei, on the Macau peninsula, in the morning. Two of them were later rescued.
By 6pm, two hospitals in Macau had received 153 injured people in need of treatment, as the city was hit by its first typhoon warranting a No 10 signal – the highest in Macau’s storm warning system – in 18 years.
According to the government, most of injuries were caused by cuts from glass shards, while others involved fractures and eye wounds. No one was in a serious condition.