Typhoon Hato - 12 dead in Hong Kong and Macau
Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2017 10:06 pm
24 Aug 2017 10:05AM
HONG KONG: The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 12 on Thursday (Aug 24) after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China and battered Hong Kong skyscrapers.
Eight died in the worst-hit gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave's famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators.
One man was killed after being injured by a wall that blew down, another fell from a fourth floor terrace and another was a Chinese tourist hit by a truck.
In Hong Kong, Hato had raised the most severe Typhoon 10 warning, only the third time a storm of this power has pounded the financial hub in the past 20 years...
AFP
HONG KONG: The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 12 on Thursday (Aug 24) after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China and battered Hong Kong skyscrapers.
Eight died in the worst-hit gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave's famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators.
One man was killed after being injured by a wall that blew down, another fell from a fourth floor terrace and another was a Chinese tourist hit by a truck.
In Hong Kong, Hato had raised the most severe Typhoon 10 warning, only the third time a storm of this power has pounded the financial hub in the past 20 years...
AFP
