Super Typhoon Yagi hits China

Super Typhoon Yagi has made landfall on the Chinese island province of Hainan.

The meteorological service in heavily populated Hainan said on Friday that Yagi, which was earlier packing maximum sustained winds of 245km/h (152mph) near its centre, hit the province’s Wenchang city at about 4:20pm (08:20 GMT).

More than 400,000 people have been forced to evacuate.

Yagi registers as the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024, after Category 5 Atlantic Hurricane Beryl, and the most severe in the Pacific basin.

On Friday, at least 419,367 residents in Hainan, a popular holiday destination, were relocated before Yagi’s landfall.

The storm had more than doubled in strength since killing 16 people in the northern Philippines earlier this week