Typhoon Meranti battered
southeastern China with heavy winds and torrential rain on Thursday, cutting
power, ripping up trees and smashing windows, a day after lashing Taiwan. The
super typhoon, packing winds of 170 kilometres per hour (105 miles per hour)
made landfall around 3am near the city of Xiamen before heading inland, state
media said.
Images from Xiamen showed flooded streets, uprooted trees, and
traffic signs torn from their posts by the violent winds. There were no reports
of any casualties. The Xinhua news agency described the storm as the most
powerful to hit Fujian province in at least 67 years, with meteorological records
only going back to the founding of modern China in 1949. More picture after cut.....
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