Violent passage of the typhoon across China: 18 dead and several missing | Chronic

Chinese authorities have confirmed the death of at least 18 people and the disappearance of 14 others, because of the effects of typhoon Lekima that rages in this part of the Asian continent.

The victims were recorded after a reservoir flooded by heavy rains in Zhejiang Province, where the storm hit the ground this morning.

A landslide caused by heavy rains blocked rivers in the area, which caused an increase in the water level of the reservoir up to ten meters in ten minutes, thus trapping 120 inhabitants of the area. 39, a neighboring town, he said. EFE

The death of this phenomenon in China was added by a 64-year-old man who died after the fall of a tree in Taiwan, while trying to prune the branches as a precaution against the typhoon. The official agency Xinhua He reported that more than a million people had been evacuated before the arrival of Lekima.

Zhejiang Province evacuated more than 700,000 people, including 110,000 in shelters, while in Shanghai City, another 253,000 were moved to safe places.

With winds of up to 187 kilometers to the hour, this typhoon – the most powerful since 2014 – was forced to cancel hundreds of ferries and 288 flights, as well as cut sections of some lines of railway.

The typhoon, the ninth of the year that arrives in China, landed today at 1:45 pm local time (3:45 pm yesterday in Argentina) near the city of Wenling, and should also provoke severe storms in the provinces of Anhui and Fujian. and Jiangsu.

Chinese weather officials have announced that the typhoon will gradually weaken, although it will continue northward at a speed of about 15 kilometers per hour.

The agency, which had launched a red alert – the most serious of the four in the national emergency system – lowered it to the second level, orange because the Lekima went from supertiphon to typhoon, with winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour.