2 people dead as typhoon Kalmaegi batters S China

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Typhoon Kalmaegi landed in China's southernmost island province of Hainan on Tuesday morning, killing two people and forcing flight cancellations and boat evacuations.

Huge waves are seen on the seashore in typhoon-hit Zhuhai City, south China's Guangdong Province, Sept. 16, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua]

The typhoon made landfall in Wengtian Township, Wenchang City at a speed of 40 meters per second at 9:40 a.m. It is the fifteenth typhoon to hit China this year.

It also landed in the coastal areas of Xuwen County, Guangdong Province at 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the provincial meteorological bureau.

Two people were killed by a falling tree in Nanning, capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A heavy downpour hit the city after the typhoon landed.

More than 290,000 people in Guangxi have been affected by the typhoon, and 25,800 people had been evacuated as of 7 p.m. Tuesday.

More than 33,000 people were trapped by heavy rainstorms on Xinliao Island in Xuwen County where the typhoon landed.

Classes were suspended in some districts of Guangzhou city, and in Haikou, capital of Hainan, school won't resume until Thursday.

Typhoon Kalmaegi is weaker than the super typhoon Rammasun that killed 62 people in July, according to Gao Yuanfu from Mingyue Village, Wengtian Township.

Gao's leg was badly injured in typhoon Rammasun, the strongest typhoon to hit south China in four decades. Gao's family has been living in tents for the past two months as his house was blown away in the last typhoon.

"Our new house has yet to be completed and we are suffering again," said Gao, who is worried most about his harvest.

"It is only half a month till harvest," he said, adding that he will suffer losses again.

More than 20,000 residents have been resettled in 24 temporary settlements since Monday morning, said Zheng Hongyan, Party secretary of the Wengtian township government.

"Although typhoon Kalmaegi is weaker than typhoon Rammasun, the rising sea water is more serious," said Liu Mancang, a shop owner in the provincial city of Haikou. There was 50 cm of water in his shop.

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