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HONG KONG-A powerful typhoon plowed into a densely populated area of southern China on Wednesday, prompting the state Meteorological Administration to issue an "urgent red alert," its highest-level warning.Authorities evacuated more than 100,000 people before typhoon Hagupit made landfall around dawn. The storm killed at least eight people in the Philippines earlier in the week.Tropical Storm Risk (http://www.tropicalstormrisk.com/) downgraded the storm from category 4 to 3 on a scale of 5 once it made landfall.Streets were deserted and shops and businesses shuttered as the storm uprooted trees and brought down billboards in cities across the booming southern Chinese province of Guangdong, including Maoming where the center of the storm made landfall.The state news agency Xinhua said a fishing boat sank but no casualties were reported.It described typhoon Hagupit as "the worst to hit Guangdong in more than a decade," but it was not clear by what gauge it was measuring the storm when typhoons in the past have triggered heavy death tolls.Hagupit whipped past Hong Kong overnight, uprooting trees and causing flash floods in low-lying areas including Lantau island where the city's airport is located, with dozens of people injured across the territory.More than 50,000 vessels had been called back to port and authorities in Guangdong, the manufacturing hub of China, Xinhua news said.To read more go to:
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