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            Typhoon pounds south China after killing 64 in Philippines



            By  VINCENT  YU  and  JIM                                                                                           In  the  city’s  inner  harbor
            GOMEZ                                                                                                               district,  the  water  level
             Associated Press                                                                                                   reached 1.5 meters (5 feet)
            HONG  KONG  (AP)  —  Ty-                                                                                            on  Sunday  and  was  ex-
            phoon  Mangkhut  barreled                                                                                           pected  to  rise  further.  The
            into  southern  China  on                                                                                           area  was  one  of  the  most
            Sunday,  killing  two  people                                                                                       affected by floods from Ty-
            after  lashing  the  Philip-                                                                                        phoon  Hato,  which  left  10
            pines with strong winds and                                                                                         people dead last year.
            heavy rain that left at least                                                                                       Authorities in southern Chi-
            64 dead and dozens more                                                                                             na  issued  a  red  alert,  the
            feared  buried  in  a  land-                                                                                        most  severe  warning,  as
            slide.                                                                                                              the  national  meteorologi-
            More  than  2.4  million  peo-                                                                                      cal center said the densely
            ple  had  been  evacuated                                                                                           populated  region  would
            in southern China’s Guang-                                                                                          face a “severe test caused
            dong  province  by  Sunday                                                                                          by  wind  and  rain”  and
            evening to flee the massive                                                                                         urged  officials  to  prepare
            typhoon and nearly 50,000                                                                                           for possible disasters.
            fishing  boats  were  called                                                                                        Hong  Kong’s  Cathay  Pa-
            back  to  port,  state  media                                                                                       cific  said  all  of  its  flights
            reported.  It  threatened  to                                                                                       would  be  canceled  be-
            be  the  strongest  typhoon   In  this  photo  released  by  Xinhua  News  Agency,  waves  crash  onto  the  coastline  in  Zhuhai  in   tween  2:30  a.m.  Sunday
            to hit Hong Kong in nearly   southern China’s Guangdong Province on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018.                         and  4  a.m.  Monday.  The
            two decades.                                                                                       Associated Press  city of Shenzhen also can-
            “Prepare  for  the  worst,”  in  the  village  of  Ucab.The  strophic  flooding  across  pouring  out  of  the  build-  celed  all  flights  between
            Hong  Kong  Security  Minis-  building — a former mining  the Carolinas in the United  ings,  fluttering  and  spiral-  Sunday and early Monday
            ter John Lee Ka-chiu urged  bunkhouse  that  had  been  States, where more than 30  ing as they headed for the  morning.  Hainan  Airlines
            residents.                   transformed  into  a  chapel  inches  of  rain  since  Friday  debris-strewn  ground,  ac-  canceled 234 flights in the
            That  warning  came  after  —  was  obliterated  when  threatened  a  deluge  of  cording  to  several  videos  cities  of  Haikou,  Sanya,
            Mangkhut’s     devastating  part  of  a  mountain  slope  historic  proportions  as  the  posted on social media.   Guangzhou, Shenzhen and
            march  through  the  north-  collapsed.  Three  villagers  storm slowly crawled inland  Mangkhut    also    felled  Zhuhai scheduled over the
            ern  Philippines,  where  the  who  managed  to  escape  from  the  coast.  Muddy  trees,  tore  bamboo  scaf-      weekend.
            storm  made  landfall  Sat-  told  authorities  what  hap-  river  waters  swamped  en-  folding  off  buildings  under  All  high-speed  and  some
            urday on Luzon island with  pened.                        tire  communities  and  the  construction  and  flooded  normal    rail   services   in
            sustained winds of 205 kilo-  “They thought they were re-  coastal city of Wilmington,  some  areas  of  Hong  Kong  Guangdong  and  Hainan
            meters (127 miles) per hour  ally safe there,” the mayor  North Carolina, was cut off  with waist-high waters, ac-  provinces were also halted,
            and  gusts  of  255  kph  (158  said. He expressed sadness  by the flood waters.       cording to the South China  the China Railway Guang-
            mph).                        that  the  villagers,  many  of  In   China,   meanwhile,   Morning Post.              zhou Group Co. said.
            Police  Superintendent  Pel-  them  poor,  had  few  op-  Mangkhut continued its de-   The  storm  made  landfall  In  the  Philippines,  rescu-
            ita  Tacio  said  34  villagers  tions  to  survive  in  a  region  structive  path,  with  Hong  in  the  Guangdong  city  of  ers for the Itogon landslide
            had died and 36 remained  where  big  corporations  Kong  bracing  for  a  storm  Taishan at 5 p.m., packing  were  hampered  by  rain
            missing in landslides in two  have  profited  immensely  that could be the strongest  wind speeds of 162 kilome-    and  mud.  The  search  and
            villages  in  Itogon  town  in  from gold mines.          to hit the city since Typhoon  ters  (100  miles)  per  hour.  rescue  operation  was  sus-
            the   northern    Philippine  Rescuers  were  scrambling  York in 1999.                State   television   broad-  pended  at  nightfall  and
            mountain province of Ben-    to  pull  out  the  body  of  a  A  video  posted  online  by  caster CGTN reported that  was to resume at daybreak
            guet.                        victim  from  the  mound  of  residents  showed  the  top  surging  waves  flooded  a  Monday,  said  Palangdan,
            Itogon    Mayor    Victorio  mud  and  rocks  in  Ucab  corner  of  an  old  building  seaside hotel in the city of  the mayor. Police and their
            Palangdan  told  The  As-    before Tacio, the police of-  break  and  fall  off,  while  in  Shenzhen.             vehicles  could  not  imme-
            sociated  Press  by  phone  ficial, left the area Sunday.  another video, a tall build-  In  Macau,  next  door  to  diately  reach  the  land-
            that  at  the  height  of  the  “I could hear villagers wail-  ing swayed as strong winds  Hong  Kong,  casinos  were  slide-hit  area  because  the
            typhoon’s  onslaught  Satur-  ing in their homes near the  blew.                       ordered  to  close  from  11  ground  was  unstable  and
            day  afternoon,  dozens  of  site of the accident,” Tacio  The  storm  shattered  glass  p.m. Saturday, the first time  soaked  from  the  heavy
            people,  mostly  miners  and  said.  The  tragedy  came  windows  on  commercial  such  action  was  taken  in  rains,  regional  police  chief
            their  families,  rushed  into  as  Florence,  another  ma-  skyscrapers  in  Hong  Kong,  the  city,  the  South  China  Rolando  Nana  told  the
            an  old  three-story  building  jor  storm,  unleashed  cata-  sending  sheets  of  paper  Morning   Post   reported.  ABS-CBN TV network.q
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