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Typhoon slams into China after killing 59 in Philippines
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- Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into mainland China late on Sunday after leaving a trail of destruction in Hong Kong and Macau and killing at least 59 people in the northern Philippines.
Typhoon Mangkhut
- Typhoon Mangkhut, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Ompong, is currently a weakening tropical cyclone over southern China.
- The thirty-first tropical depression, twenty-second tropical storm, and ninth typhoon of the 2018 Pacific typhoon season, Mangkhut made landfall in the Philippine province of Cagayan on September 15, 2018 as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon, and subsequently impacted Hong Kong and southern China.
- Mangkhut was the strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Philippines since Typhoon Haiyan in November 2013, as well as the strongest typhoon to strike Hong Kong since Typhoon Ellen in 1983.
- Mangkhut was also the strongest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2018.
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