Follow-up – WAA
Super Typhoon Yagi has left at least two dead and 92 injured on the southern Chinese tourist island of Hainan, the official Xinhua news agency reported..
The typhoon brought heavy rain and strong winds of more than 230 km/h, forcing the evacuation of about 460,000 people. In neighboring Guangdong Province (southern China), authorities said they had evacuated more than 574,000 residents to safe areas..
The airport in Haikou, the capital of Hainan in the north of the island, also cancelled all incoming and outgoing flights on Saturday. Southern China typically experiences typhoons during the summer and autumn, forming in warm oceans east of the Philippines before moving west..
But with climate change, tropical storms are becoming more difficult to predict and are becoming more intense, bringing heavy rains and strong winds that can cause flooding and coastal damage, experts say..
Typhoon Yagi is heading towards Vietnam after passing through southern China, and is expected to hit the northern and north-central regions around the Halong Bay area, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on Saturday..
Source: Arabic