The super typhoon Ragasa cost at least fourteen people to the lives in eastern Taiwan, report international press agencies in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. The victims then fell through a natural dike. According to the local authorities, eighteen people were also injured and 124 people are still missing.
Due to the dike fracture, water was released from a lake with a lot of force. A bridge was dragged along and a nearby village was flooded.
Previously, Ragasa raged over the Philippines. As far as we know, two people were killed there.
A super typhoon can be compared to a category 5 hurricane, the heaviest hurricane category. Ragasa reached a maximum wind speed of 270 kilometers per hour.
China and Hong Kong
Now racing Ragasa A little south of Hong Kong on mainland China. In Hong Kong the schools are closed and the international airport has also been closed since Tuesday evening.
In the southeast of China, schools and companies are also closed in at least ten different cities as a result. In the millions of city of Shenzhen, 400,000 inhabitants have been given the order to evacuate.
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