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In Cagayan alone, where the super typhoon made landfall late on Wednesday with destructive 225 kmph winds and heavy rain, between 50,000-60,000 hectares of rice fields were flattened and flooded, said the provincial governor Manuel Mamba.
“It was like we were hit by another Yolanda,” he told a radio station, referring to the 2013 super typhoon known internationally as Haiyan which killed at least 6,000 people and destroyed billions of pesos worth of property.
Hong Kong shut all but essential services in the global financial hub as the storm approached.
“According to the present forecast track, Haima will be closest to Hong Kong around noon, skirting about 100 km to the east of the territory,” said the observatory on its website.
“This means that winds with mean speeds of 63 kmph or more are expected from the northwest quarter.”
Flights and train services have been cancelled in and out of the city.
(Sourced from agencies, feature image courtesy:chinadailyasia.com)
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