Tens of thousands evacuated from their homes in Shanghai as Typhoon In-fa barrels into the eastern coast of China.
devasted huge swaths of the country's center, forcing more than 1 million people from their homes, around 330,000 residents were evacuated from Shanghai's Fengxian District the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.
After In-fa made landfall at about 12:30 p.m. local time the Zhejiang province was buffeted with wind speeds of up to 60 mph, state TV reported, citing the national weather agency. Forecasters predicted between 10 to 14 inches of rain. Authorities in Shanghai, a city of around 26 million people, ordered the public to stay indoors and canceled inbound and outbound flights from both the Shanghai Pudong and Shanghai Hongqiao international airports. More flights will likely be canceled on Monday, state TV reported.
The nation’s commercial hub also closed many services and businesses, and slowed or suspended subway trains as rain battered the region."We will make every effort to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, and do everything to minimize disaster losses, and strive to achieve the goal of no deaths and few injuries and economic losses," Yuan Jiajun, the Zhejiang province Communist Party secretary said during an inspection of preparations on Saturday, state media reported.
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