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Taiwan evacuated more than 3,000 people from vulnerable areas and closed schools and offices on Tuesday ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Fung-wong, which has killed at least 18 people and displaced more than 1.4 million. philippines After the landslide there on Sunday.
Fung-wong was classified as a typhoon but is losing intensity as it approaches Taiwan and is expected to make landfall near the southwestern port city of Kaohsiung on Wednesday afternoon or evening.
Taiwan’s weather agency said Tuesday morning, the typhoon was expected to pack maximum winds of 108 kilometers per hour (67 mph) and gusts up to 137 kilometers per hour (85 mph), and by Wednesday evening or early Thursday the typhoon was expected to spread across the island and exit its northeastern portion.
More than 3,300 people from four counties and cities have been evacuated near the eastern township of Guangfu, where flooding from a typhoon in September caused a barrier lake to overflow, killing 18 people.
schools And offices in Hualien and Yilan counties were closed Tuesday, while weather officials issued land warnings covering southern and southwestern areas including Kaohsiung, Pingtung County, Tainan and Taitung.
China Activated an emergency typhoon response for its southeastern Fujian, GuangdongZhejiang and Hainan provinces.
Fung-Wong hit the northeastern Philippine coast from the Pacific as a super typhoon on Sunday, with maximum winds of 185 kilometers per hour (115 mph) and gusts of up to 230 kilometers per hour (143 mph). The 1,800 kilometers (1,100 mi) wide storm caused floods and landslides in several northern provinces, killing at least 18 people.
The office of Civil Defense Deputy Director Bernardo Rafaelito Alejandro IV said more than a million people were displaced on Tuesday, including about 803,000 taking shelter in 11,000 evacuation centers in the northern Luzon region.
The dead included three children whose homes were buried in two separate landslides in the mountainous province of Nueva Vizcaya that injured four others, officials said, while landslides in nearby Kalinga province killed two villagers and left two others missing.
“This is not an incident of mass casualties in one place,” Alejandro said Tuesday. He mentioned that several people had died in separate landslides.
The Philippines and Taiwan are affected by many storms and typhoons every year.
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Gomez reported from Manila, Philippines.