1.3 M flee as storm hits China

BEIJING, China — Authorities have evacuated 1.3 million people from their homes in southeastern China as a super typhoon swirled towards them.

Typhoon Saomai — which has already dumped torrential rains on Taiwan — made landfall Thursday afternoon, according to Taiwan’s central weather bureau.

The typhoon had been gathering strength as it neared China, and is a category four storm, packing sustained winds of 216 kilometers per hour (134 miles per hour).

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