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Typhoon Megi kills one in China, four in Taiwan

This file photo shows residents clean up a flooded street in Xiamen, in China’s eastern Fujian Province after Typhoon Meranti made landfall on September 15, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Typhoon Megi has reached the eastern Chinese coastal province of Fujian, causing flooding and damage and killing one person.

Typhoon Megi hit Chinese mainland with winds of around 120 kilometers an hour, causing massive rainfall, on Wednesday, according to Xinhua news agency.

One man died after a flash flood tore through his home, reported local media from Fujian.

Schools and offices were closed, and train services and dozens of flights were canceled.

Fujian Province’s 31,700 fishing boats have also been recalled to port.

In Fujian’s provincial capital, Fuzhou, the state television showed people walking through knee-deep waters that had filled major roads.

This September 25, 2016 NASA satellite image shows Typhoon Megi in the western Pacific. (Via AFP)

On Tuesday, four people were killed after the powerful typhoon landed in Taiwan with strong winds and rains. Megi made landfall on Taiwan with winds of around 162 kilometers an hour.

Three people suffered fatal falls and a fourth person died in a truck crash, said Lee Wei-sen, a spokesman for Taiwan’s Central Emergency Operations Center.

Some 270 were also injured, including eight Japanese tourists.

Taiwan’s financial markets had also been closed in advance.

A man walks during a storm in Xindian district, New Taipei City, as Typhoon Megi hits eastern Taiwan, September 27, 2016. (Photo by AFP)

Megi was 500 kilometers in diameter at its largest, and rainfall had topped 300 millimeters in the south and eastern mountains of Taiwan.

On September 14, Super Typhoon Meranti claimed the lives of 28 people in Taiwan and China and caused massive power outages in the affected areas.

Soon after Meranti, the smaller Typhoon Malakas swept through the island.

In 2009, Typhoon Morakot devastated southern Taiwan, killing about 700 people and causing more than three billion dollars in damage.


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