Typhoon Soudelor lashed Taiwan on Saturday, downing trees, traffic lights and power lines, and leaving at least four dead, one missing and dozens injured.
On Friday afternoon, marine police rescued 55 university students and teachers trapped on a small island where they had been attending a summer camp, after strong gales stopped ferry services, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Drivers line up their cars along the road to fill up their gas tanks in the wake of Typhoon Soudelor on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Authorities in southeast China ordered the evacuation of about 158,000 people and ships back to port ahead of the typhoon, which was expected to hit Fujian province on Saturday night.
Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau said that by mid-morning Saturday, it was packing maximum sustained winds of 162 kilometers (100 miles) per hour and was moving at a speed of 19 kph (12 mph) in a northwesterly direction in Yunlin county on the west
A young boy searches through the storm-damaged remains of his home and finds a mother cat nursing two kittens on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
Other casualties included a firefighter who was killed and another injured after being hit by a drunken driver as they attempted to move a fallen tree in the island’s south, the news agency said. The center of the storm made landfall in eastern
Employees of commercial ships and fishing vessels "rescue" a dummy during an emergency rescue drill as Typhoon Soudelor approaches in Keelung, northeastern Taiwan. Soudelor is expected to bring heavy rains and strong winds to the island late Friday
A girl helps her parents repair their storm-damaged home by removing nails from plywood on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands.
A woman and children brave the strong winds from Typhoon Soudelor in Taipei, Taiwan. Soudelor is expected to bring heavy rains and strong winds to the island late Friday with winds speeds over 170 km per hour (100 mph) and gusts over 200 km per hour
Fallen power lines lie on the roadside in the aftermath of Typhoon Soudelor, in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands. President Barack Obama has declared the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands a disaster area and is ordering federal aid to
A total of 27 people have been injured and almost 2 million households were without electricity as the powerful storm left streets strewn with fallen trees, the government’s Central News Agency reported.
The typhoon brought strong winds and heavy rainfall as it made landfall early Saturday and was expected to move into the Taiwan Strait and onto mainland China later in the day.
Typhoon Soudelor hits Taiwan; brings death and destruction along