Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in southern China

Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in southern China on Wednesday, the national weather service said, after battering Hong Kong. For a period of several hours on Wednesday, the powerful typhoon shook buildings as sheets of rain poured down on the city of more than two million people. The weather service said that at the time of landfall, the maximum wind speed near the centre of the storm was 145 kilometres per hour.