Authorities have cancelled more than a thousand flights and cancelled train services as the city prepares for the storm.<\/p>\n
It is expected to weaken further by the time it reaches Shanghai, but will still bring a high risk of dangerous flooding.The city evacuated some 250,000 residents, with another 800,000 in the Zhejiang province also being taken from their homes.<\/p>\n
An estimated 2.7 million homes in the region lost power as power lines toppled in the high winds, Chinese state media said.<\/p>\n
It is the ninth typhoon of the year, Xinhua news said – but the strongest storm seen in years. It was initially given China’s highest level of weather warning but was later downgraded to an “orange” level.<\/p>\n Chinese weather forecasters said the storm was moving north at just 15km\/h (9mph).<\/p>\n It earlier passed Taiwan, skirting its northern tip and causing a handful of injuries and some property damage.<\/p>\n Coming just a day after a magnitude six earthquake, experts warned that the combination of earth movement and heavy rain increased the risk of landslides.<\/p>\n Lekima is one of two typhoons in the western Pacific at the moment.<\/p>\n Further east, Typhoon Krosa is spreading heavy rain across the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. It is moving north-west and could strike Japan some time next week, forecasters said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC – At least 13 people have been killed and more than a million forced from their homes as Typhoon Lekima hit China. Sixteen people were also missing after a landslide was triggered by the storm, state media reported. Lekima made landfall in the early hours of Saturday in Wenling, between Taiwan and China’s financial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mainstory","category-regional-and-international-news"],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p07k6cqh.jpg\")
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