News Desk

The Advocate Post: The typhoon Gaemi has reached mainland China after terrorizing Taiwan and the Philippines, and more than 150,000 people in the south-eastern Chinese province of Fujian have been evacuated to a safer place because of this.

Previously, widespread flooding and landslides across Taiwan and the Philippines had killed at least 21 people. Furthermore, the Philippines say that they are racing against time to contain an oil spill that had occurred after a tanker filled with 1.5 million liters of industrial fuel capsized and sank at the country’s coast.

Another ship had went down around Taiwan’s south-western coast, making it the second ship to sink in the Region this Thursday.

As the storm made its way to its shores on Thursday evening, China activated one of its highest-tier disaster warning. Chinese President Xi Jinping appointed a meeting with the communist party’s highest leaders to discuss flood control and disaster relief plans, according to state media.

Train services have been halted in Fujian, while in northern China, authorities have warned of landslides and flooding caused by heavy rains. On the other side, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters have said that there is a “high risk” of natural disasters.

Extremely disparate climates had hit China in the summer, with weather ranging from heavy rains in the east and south and scorching heatwaves in the north.

Gaemi is seemingly taking a similar route to Typhoon Doksurifrom last year, which is responsible for widespread flood across northern China, although the route does have possibility to change.