One killed, 73 injured as Super Typhoon Kong-rey makes landfall in Taiwan ( Video)

One person has been officially confirmed dead while 73 others were injured as a super typhoon named Kong-Rey made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday morning.

Described as one of the biggest storms to hit the island in decades, the typhoon reportedly whipped up 10-metre waves, triggering floods in the eastern parts of the country, according to the country’s Central Weather Administration (CWA).

A senior official of the CWA, Chu Mei-lin, said the “typhoon packed
maximum wind speeds of 184 kilometres per hour (114 miles per hour), which led to work and schools across suspended as people hunkered down ahead of the storm.’

“It was the same strength as Typhoon Gaemi, which was the most powerful storm to hit Taiwan in eight years when it made landfall in July, but Kong-rey’s radius of 320 kilometres made it the biggest in nearly three decades,” she said.

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“Its impact on all of Taiwan will be quite severe,” she warned.

She however, added that Typhoon Kong-rey was expected to weaken after hitting land and then move across the mountains that run down the centre of the island before exiting over the Taiwan Strait in the evening.

“There was very serious flooding in Hualien County,” Hualian fire department chief Wang Ming-chung said, adding that rescues and evacuations still under way.

“We are also handling incidents of falling signboards hitting people and fallen trees on the roads,” Wang told reporters.

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