Thursday, August 03, 2006
Typhoon Prapiroon heads toward China
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(Xinhua News Agency) from China.
Shanghai, China - : Typhoon Prapiroon roared toward southern China on Thursday packing winds of up to 130 kph, as authorities cancelled train and ferry services and evacuated tens of thousands of people amid warnings of severe destruction.
At 10:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) Thursday, the storm was centered 300 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, travelling northwest toward southern China's Hainan island at about 14 kilometers per hour, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.
Already blamed for six deaths in the Philippines, Prapiroon was expected to make landfall between Thursday night and Friday. Authorities evacuated 65,000 people from parts of Hainan and neighboring Guangdong province and ferry and railway services linking the two have been suspended.
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(Xinhua News Agency) from China.
Shanghai, China - : Typhoon Prapiroon roared toward southern China on Thursday packing winds of up to 130 kph, as authorities cancelled train and ferry services and evacuated tens of thousands of people amid warnings of severe destruction.
At 10:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) Thursday, the storm was centered 300 kilometers southeast of Hong Kong, travelling northwest toward southern China's Hainan island at about 14 kilometers per hour, according to the Hong Kong Observatory.
Already blamed for six deaths in the Philippines, Prapiroon was expected to make landfall between Thursday night and Friday. Authorities evacuated 65,000 people from parts of Hainan and neighboring Guangdong province and ferry and railway services linking the two have been suspended.
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