Hong Kong On Lockdown as Typhoon Mangkhut Arrives
- At least 8 people dead in Philippines, about 126,800 evacuated
- Travel disrupted as airlines ground more than 500 flights
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Hong Kong issued its highest warning as a weakened though still dangerous Typhoon Mangkhut bears down on China’s Guangdong province, after leaving a path of destruction across the northern Philippines. Most Hong Kong flights were canceled and some rail service was halted as the storm approached.
The typhoon’s top winds declined to about 167 kilometers per hour (103 mph), from 195 kph earlier, according to the U.S. Navy and Air Force’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii. Mangkhut’s structure will be ripped by wind shear, weakening its top winds as it approaches the coast to Hong Kong’s west.