Super typhoon hits Taiwan, over 600 flights canceled

Super typhoon Nepartak hit Taiwan, driving thousands of people from their homes, disrupting power supplies and grounding more than 600 flights, authorities said. Television Friday showed toppled motorcycles and signboards being ripped from buildings and swept across roads in southeast Taiwan, where the year’s first typhoon made landfall. By afternoon, the typhoon had moved into […]

Super typhoon Nepartak hit Taiwan, driving thousands of people from their homes, disrupting power supplies and grounding more than 600 flights, authorities said.
Television Friday showed toppled motorcycles and signboards being ripped from buildings and swept across roads in southeast Taiwan, where the year’s first typhoon made landfall.
By afternoon, the typhoon had moved into the Taiwan Strait, weakening as it headed toward China’s southeastern province of Fujian, but flooding and strong winds continued to lash the island’s central and southern areas.
More than 17,300 people were evacuated from their homes, and over 517,000 households suffered power outages, emergency officials said.
Three deaths and 172 injuries were reported, bullet train services were suspended and over 340 international and 300 domestic flights canceled, an emergency services website showed.