Utor Disrupts Transportation in Macao and HK

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　　Super Typhoon Utor has made landfall in southeastern China. The powerful storm has also disrupted transportation in Macao and Hong Kong.

 

　　CRI's Zhang Ru has more.

 

　　Hong Kong has closed offices, schools and transportation services as Utor passed by the Asian financial centre.

 

　　The Hong Kong Stock Exchange was also shut down.

 

　　The storm has brought with it gale-force winds, rough seas and heavy showers.

 

　　One person in Hong Kong has reportedly been injured.

 

　　Some 94 flights arriving at or leaving from the city's airport have been cancelled.

 

　　Another 107 flights were delayed.

 

　　A number of passengers were left stranded¹ at the airport's express train station.

 

　　"I think so, because the flights to Seoul, two of them are delayed and one of them cancelled. So, yes, I really worried."

 

　　"Now we are still making calls. The earliest flight we can get may be one tomorrow night or evening."

 

　　Utor has also disrupted transportation in Macao and on Hainan, stranding² almost 2-thousand passengers in Sanya.

 

　　The storm is forecast to track in a northwesterly direction through Guangdong and into Guangxi tonight.

 

　　While losing power as it moves inland, the storm is still expected to maintain its Typhoon status through at least tomorrow morning, with winds of well over 100-kilometers per hour.

 

　　Mainland authorities in Guangdong and Guangxi are also on full-alert in advance of the storm.

 

　　More than 158,000 people have been relocated in Guangdong and Hainan.

 

　　Utor is this year's strongest typhoon.

 

　　It crossed over the northern Philippines over the weekend, leaving at least six dead and thousands of others displaced.

 

　　For CRI, this is Zhang Ru.

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