Southern Taiwan on Thursday shut businesses and schools while airlines cancelled hundreds of domestic flights amid warnings of landslides and floods as Typhoon Doksuri churned past the island en route to China where it will make landfall later this week.
As of 8:30 a.m. Typhoon Doksuri, categorised at the second-strongest typhoon level by Taiwan's weather bureau, headed towards the southern Taiwan Strait with maximum winds of 191 km per hour.
Taiwan's weather bureau issued wind and rain warnings on Thuyrsday for the southern part of the island, including the major port city of Kaohsiung where businesses and schools were closed and landslide warnings issued. More than 4,000 people were evacuated as a precaution, mostly in the mountainous southern and eastern Taiwan, where nearly 0.7 metres of rainfall was recorded in some areas and up to 1 metre of rain was forecast.
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