Shanghai prepares for typhoon “Bebinca” – news Urix – Foreign news and documentaries

Disturbing clouds hung over Shanghai in eastern China on Sunday evening. Typhoon “Bebinca” is headed straight for the port city with around 25 million inhabitants. At 21:00 Norwegian time, Yr’s weather map showed that the spiral-shaped storm was located just off the coast. The typhoon is expected to make landfall during the night. With wind gusts of 40 meters per second, “Bebinca” could become the most powerful typhoon to hit Shanghai since 1949, writes Reuters. Your browser does not support the embedding of external content Grounds planes This is despite the fact that it is a category 1 typhoon, i.e. the lowest typhoon category. Still, Shanghai is taking no chances. Shanghai is rarely hit by strong typhoons. The city is now expected to be hit by torrential rain and strong gusts of wind. A flood warning has been issued for Shanghai and the provinces surrounding the city, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. Fishing boats were docked in Zhoushan south of Shanghai on Sunday. Photo: STR / AFP On Sunday evening, all departures from Shanghai’s two airports were cancelled. The same has happened with several train departures. Several hundred dead in South-East Asia While Shanghai prepares for the storm, the countries in South-East Asia are characterized by enormous destruction after the typhoon “Yagi”, which hit southern China on 6 September. The next day it swept across Vietnam and hit Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. “Yagi” was a category 4 typhoon when it hit China with winds of over 60 kilometers per second. By the time it hit northern Vietnam, it had been downgraded to a Category 3 typhoon, before gradually weakening in strength. It is the strongest typhoon to hit Asia so far this year. In Myanmar, which has been characterized by widespread unrest and conflict since the military coup in 2021, more than 300,000 people had to flee their homes. – 113 people have died. 64 are missing and 14 are injured, said government spokesman Zaw Min Tun, AFP reported. In Vietnam, around 200 people lost their lives as a result of the storm. People row between flooded houses in Myanmar’s capital Naypyitaw on Sunday. Photo: Aung Shine Oo / AP Interested in abroad? Listen to the foreign affairs editor’s podcast: Published 16.09.2024, at 00.03



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