More than 26,000 people were evacuated in Hainan and the authorities asked the resorts and bus companies to suspend operations until Saturday afternoon. Xinhua said authorities had ordered the highest level of alert disasters in the region.A powerful typhoon struck Friday Hainan Island in southern China after killing at least 54 people in the Philippines.
At first there was no report of any major in the southwest of the island, located southwest of Hong Kong damage after Typhoon Rammasun landfall around 3:30 pm local time (7:30 GMT), said local news website Net Hainan in his microblog, AP reported.
Before landfall typhoon winds reached 216 kilometers per hour (130 mph), according to the official Xinhua news agency, describing Rammasun as the strongest storm in at least nine years and possibly since 1973.
More than 26,000 people were evacuated in Hainan and the authorities asked the resorts and bus companies to suspend operations until Saturday afternoon. Xinhua said authorities had ordered the highest level of alert disasters in the region.
Hainan Net said the ferry to the mainland and the train service on the east side of the island were suspended. Xinhua added that 36 trains in the region of Guangxi, western Guangdong, were detained.
The storm brought strong winds and rain to Hong Kong, and was expected to arrive after passing Hainan north of Vietnam.
Rammasun Wednesday swept northern Philippines, dumping heavy rains on the capital, Manila. The deadly typhoon forced the evacuation of half a million people and left whole provinces without electricity.
The Philippine Council of Management and Disaster Risk Reduction on Friday raised the death toll from the storm to 54 people, with three others missing and 100 wounded.
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