Powerful typhoon hits Taiwan, headed for China

Taipei, Taiwan (AP) - A powerful typhoon originated in northern Taiwan on Saturday, killing at least one person and disrupt transportation and commerce around the island of 23 million people, densely populated before heading west to China's coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang.
Central Weather Bureau of Taiwan, said that from 08.30 clock (0030 GMT), the typhoon at sea Soulik was west of the Taiwanese city of Hsinchu. It was with wind speeds of 137 kph (86 mph) at 163 km per hour had boasted Taiwanese landfall at dawn, but still enough to threaten major disruptions and damage to property.
Torrential rains rocked large parts of northern and central Taiwan with Hsinchu and Miaoli County neighbors is 700-800 mm (27-31 inches) reporting early Saturday morning.
Around Taipei and surrounding area were rescue workers struggling for power to 520,000 homes that had been interrupted restore, and remove hundreds of trees uprooted by the storm the roads and paths.
Schools and businesses throughout the northern Taiwan were closed by the government in order on Friday, and the military evacuated 8,000 people from the mountain villages as prone to flooding.
Shortly after midnight Saturday, a brick the life of a police officer in a suburb of Taipei Tanshui falls claimed, while elsewhere, reported the National Fire Agency, that there are at least 21 wounded.
Dozens of flights to the main international airport of Taipei were canceled from Friday afternoon but is expected to return to normal operation by late Saturday night. High-speed rail system in Taiwan also suspended operations at least until early Saturday afternoon.
Across the Taiwan Strait, the China Meteorological Administration Soulik landfall in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces on Saturday, before the interior.
He urged the local authorities to suspend all maritime activities and cancel large meetings, while reinforcing the harbor and mollusc farming facilities to reduce the chances. The service in more than two dozen trains were canceled.