2023-07-28 07:31:05
at least one person lost his life and thousands of homes were left without electricity as a result of the passage through Taiwan of Typhoon Doksuri, which caused strong winds and rains on Thursday in the south and east of the island, reported the island agency CNA, before arriving on the Chinese coast this Friday. More than 60,000 households experienced power outages across Taiwan on Thursday, and nearly 900 were without power as of Thursday night.
A woman drowned Wednesday after falling and being swept away by a strong river current as a result of the heavy rains in the east of the island, local media reported.
The typhoon has also caused material damage to homes and infrastructure: in Kaohsiung (southwest), a house collapsed due to the impact of the wind and, in Taitung (east), a section of the highway linking the south and east of the country was left blocked by a landslide and rocks. In the aforementioned Kaohsiung, more than 3,100 residents living in areas vulnerable to landslides were evacuated on Thursday. Likewise, Taiwanese airports have registered more than 300 cancellations of domestic and international flights in the last few hours, local media reported.
The typhoon has also forced the cancellation this week of some military exercises within the framework of the annual Han Kuang maneuvers, which aim to assess the island’s defensive capacity against a possible invasion from China. The Taiwan Meteorological Center declared in the last hours that the typhoon had already left the island behind in a northwesterly direction, towards the Chinese coasts, at a speed of 155 kilometers per hour.
The southeast coast of China already registered strong winds and torrential rains on the local Friday morningwhich forced the authorities to raise the emergency level to the maximum, reported the official Xinhua news agency.
Doksuri made landfall in the coastal areas of the city of Jinjiang, in the southeastern Fujian province, around 09:55 local time (01:55 GMT) on Friday, with gusts of up to 50 meters per second near its eye, according to the provincial meteorological authorities. The typhoon is forecast to move northwestward, gradually weakening in intensity.
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The China Meteorological Administration had activated the highest level I typhoon emergency last night before the arrival of Doksuri, which had intensified from “serious” to “super typhoon”. Strong winds will hit the coastal regions of southeast China between Friday and Saturday morning, and Fujian and Zhejiang (east) provinces will see heavy rainfall of up to 280 mm, according to Xinhua. According to local media, more than 200,000 people have been evacuated in Fujian and hundreds of flights and trains have been cancelled.
The Chinese authorities issued a notice to suspend gatherings and outdoor activities and announced the evacuation of people residing in vulnerable housing in the affected areas, including areas in the provinces of Fujian, Guangdong (southeast), Jiangxi (center) and Zhejiang. The typhoon has already left at least five dead and more than 300,000 affected in the Philippinesa country he hit before heading to Taiwan.
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