Typhoon Bebinca has made landfall in Shanghai, the strongest storm to hit China’s biggest city since 1949.
The typhoon hit at about 7.30am (23:30 GMT) on Monday in the coastal area of Lingang New City in Shanghai’s east, the China Meteorological Administration said.
With wind speeds of up to 151 kilometres per hour (94 miles per hour) near its eye, Bebinca is the strongest storm to hit the city since Typhoon Gloria in 1949, the state-run Global Times reported.爱上海同城对对碰
Flights and train services were cancelled, highways closed and Shanghai’s 25 million residents advised to stay at home ahead of the storm’s arrival爱上海同城论坛. A 40km/h (25mph) speed limit was imposed on roads inside the city.
A red alert was in place and some 9,000 people evacuated from the Chongming District, an island at the mouth of the Yangtze River, city authorities said.上海品茶工作室
Local authorities ordered all vessels to return to port to avoid heavy seas.上海新茶资源
CCTV broadcast footage of a reporter by the coast in the neighbouring Zhejiang province, where waves pounded the craggy coastline under leaden skies.上海娱乐网
“If I step out into [the storm], I can barely speak,” the reporter said.
“You can see that the surface of the sea is just wave after wave, each higher than the last.”爱上海
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