HONG KONG: The death toll from severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 12 on Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China and battered Hong Kong skyscrapers. Eight died in the worst-hit gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. In Hong Kong, Hato had raised the most severe Typhoon 10 warning, only the third time a storm of this power has pounded the financial hub in the past 20 years. Hong Kong and the surrounding region are regularly besieged by typhoons between July and October. It killed 130 and left 72,000 people homeless in Hong Kong alone.

Source: New Strait Times August 24, 2017 02:48 UTC