The advance of the terrible typhoon Mangkhut continues unabated. After sowing death and destruction in the Philippines, it now heads to China where it has already registered its first victims.
Mangkhut leaves the Philippines on its knees, and a trail of death where there are 64 dead but it is feared that the number can rise up to 100 victims, in fact, at least 40 gold diggers camped in a shanty town near a mine in the north of the country they were buried under a landslide of mud and stones, caused by rains and very strong wind and at the time the bodies of only seven of them were recovered.
In these hours Mangkhut, the worst storm of the year, as big as France, has hit land in the southern region of Guangdong with high tides of three meters. Two million and 400 thousand people have been evacuated. There are already two victims and 15 people were injured in the autonomous region of Macao, which closed its casinos for the first time.
Fifty thousand boats have been asked to return to the port by tonight, while the population of the capital Guangzhou has stock up on basic necessities in supermarkets, before closing their doors.