Guangzhou (AsiaNews / Agencies) - The super-typhoon Rammasun, the most powerful to hit the coast of China in the last 40 years has made landfall in southern China: initial estimates speak of 1 dead, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing and hundreds of canceled flights. But state media warn that given its power more damage is forecast. Rammasun arrived from the Philippines, where it claimed more than 40 lives.
The storm is moving at at a speed of 20-25 kilometers
per hour, with winds of up to 180 km per hour: local authorities have declared a
red alert for the first time this year, the maximum warning , and requested the
help of the army. Over 60 thousand people have been evacuated in land, while
more than 217 thousand people have fled coastal areas.
Rammasun left millions of people without power in the Philippines' capital Manila
and is now repeating the same phenomenon in China: the wind, a resident of Haikou
writes, "is so strong that it's like being on a plane." Even the
torrential rains that preceded it have caused widespread damage: at least six people
died from being struck by lightning, while nine others were killed by a
landslide in the southern province of Yunnan.