Typhoon Champi kills one and injures more than 500 in Taiwan as it heads to China

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Typhoon Champi struck Taiwan, killing one person and injuring more than 500 as it uprooted trees and disrupted power. The storm weakened while moving toward China's coast, with closures and flight cancellations affecting much of Taiwan, including Taipei.

Super typhoon weakening but large parts of Taiwan, including Taipei, still mostly closed and flights cancelled Typhoon Champi swept past Taiwan on Saturday killing one person, injuring more than 500, and uprooting trees and severing power as it weakened and ⁠headed north toward ⁠the ​Chinese coast. Earlier classified as a super typhoon and one of the strongest storms in the ⁠Pacific this year, Champi was still packing gusts of about 126km per hour (78 miles per hour) near its ⁠centre, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration (CWA). Continue reading...