HONG KONG — Typhoon Mangkhut continued its deadly path across Asia on Sunday, making landfall on the southeastern coast of China and leaving at least two dead there, after battering Hong Kong and causing 11-foot storm surges in the city’s harbor. In southern China, the storm made landfall around 5 p.m. near Jiangmen City, in Guangdong Province, packing winds of 100 miles, or 160 kilometers, an hour, the official news agency Xinhua reported. State news media said that more than 100,000 people had been evacuated from the province, and the state broadcaster CCTV reported two deaths. The typhoon was expected to weaken as it passed over mainland China, but it had already taken a considerable toll: Landslides in the Philippines buried dozens, including people sheltering in a church and a dormitory for miners, and the death toll there was expected to rise sharply as rescue workers began moving in.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 10:09 UTC