Typhoon Mujigae also prompted several strong tornadoes when it landed in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 168 people, local authorities said.
In one case, a tornado swept up a car and killed the person inside, Guangdong's civil-affairs department said.
The official Xinhua news agency said one fisherman also was killed and an additional 16 were reported missing in China.
Mujigae, the 22nd typhoon of the year, went through the northern Philippines early Saturday, causing floods and a few landslides. It left two dead and about 30 fishermen missing, said Mike Sabado, a spokesman for the regional Office of Civil Defense.
Nearly 200,000 people in southern China were evacuated before Typhoon Mujigae—"rainbow" in Korean—made landfall near the city of Zhanjiang in Guangdong province just after 2 p.m. on Sunday, said the National Meteorological Center.
By Monday morning, the typhoon had moved into the neighboring region of Guangxi and its wind speed dropped to 34 miles an hour. The region had ordered 12,700 fishing boats and 35,400 offshore workers to return to port.
The typhoon lashed southern China, including the resort island province of Hainan, where thousands of Chinese have flocked during the weeklong National Day holiday that runs through Wednesday.
Scores of flights in and out of Hainan's main airport in the provincial capital of Haikou have been canceled, and high-speed rail service between Haikou and the tourist center of Sanya was suspended over the weekend.
Meanwhile, more than 500 tourists were taking shelter in hotels in Guangdong's Fangji Island after attempts to evacuate them were disrupted by high winds, Xinhua reported.
Nearly 200 fishermen in the Philippines had been reported missing at the height of the storm, mostly from the provinces of Pangasinan and La Union, but most sailed back home after taking shelter or were rescued at sea.
Source: Associated Press via WSJ
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