One million people evacuated in China as Super Typhoon Chan-hom hits land
One dead, cities flooded and hundreds of flights cancelled as the super typhoon makes landfall south of Shanghai packing winds of 160km/h
Super Typhoon Chan-hom hit the coast south of Shanghai late yesterday afternoon as winds of up to 160km/h forced the evacuation of at least 1.1 million people and the cancellation of hundreds of flights.
The storm made landfall in Zhoushan , a city east of the port of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, dumping more than 100 millimetres of rain since late Friday, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency reported.
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The Hong Kong International Airport said 51 flights between Shanghai and Hong Kong had been affected.
The typhoon, with wind gusts up to 45 metres per second, was the strongest to hit Zhejiang in any July since 1949, the National Meteorological Centre said. Previously, the strongest typhoon to hit Zhejiang in July hit 40 metres per second.