TAIPEI - Schools and offices were closed in typhoon-hit parts of Taiwan on Monday as residents started clearing up after their homes were flooded by the storm.
Typhoon Fanapi, the strongest to hit the region this year with wind gusts of up to 220 kilometers (138 miles) per hour, made landfall on the east coast Sunday and dumped up to 1,000 millimeters (39 inches) of rain in the south.
The typhoon progressed onto southern China early Monday and was inching inland towards Hong Kong, meteorologists said.
In Taiwan, television images showed the military using amphibious vehicles to rescue citizens trapped by flash flooding in Kaohsiung, the island's second-biggest city.
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Typhoon Fanapi, the strongest to hit the region this year with wind gusts of up to 220 kilometers (138 miles) per hour, made landfall on the east coast Sunday and dumped up to 1,000 millimeters (39 inches) of rain in the south.
The typhoon progressed onto southern China early Monday and was inching inland towards Hong Kong, meteorologists said.
In Taiwan, television images showed the military using amphibious vehicles to rescue citizens trapped by flash flooding in Kaohsiung, the island's second-biggest city.
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