Important Takeaways:
- A popular tourist island south of mainland China has been hit by the most powerful typhoon in a decade, leaving the area facing potentially catastrophic winds and torrential rain.
- A super typhoon is equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane.
- Super typhoon Yagi slammed into Wenchang city in the north-east of Hainan Island with winds of 138 mph at 16:00 local time on Friday, according to state media.
- Some 400,000 people in Hainan Island were evacuated to safe ground ahead of Yagi’s arrival.
- Chinese authorities believe Yagi will be the strongest typhoon to hit its southern coast in a decade.
- Earlier this week, floods and landslides brought by Yagi killed at least 13 people in northern Philippines, with thousands of people forced to evacuate to safer ground.
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