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People marque their mode connected an bare thoroughfare arsenic Typhoon Kompasu passes successful Hong Kong Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. Hong Kong suspended classes, banal marketplace trading and authorities services arsenic the typhoon passed southbound of the metropolis Wednesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

BEIJING – A beardown tropical tempest bearing down connected Hong Kong connected Wednesday near 1 idiosyncratic dormant and 21 others injured, arsenic metropolis authorities suspended classes, banal marketplace trading and authorities services.

Typhoon Kompasu moved crossed the South China Sea earlier hitting China’s confederate land state of Hainan, wherever it was downgraded to a terrible tropical tempest with maximum sustained winds of 105 kilometers (65 miles) per hour.

The tempest made landfall connected Hainan connected Wednesday afternoon, and China’s authoritative Xinhua News Agency said authorities canceled flights astatine large airports and ferries to Guangdong province.

Passing southbound of Hong Kong, the tempest near 21 radical injured who received aesculapian treatment, according to the Hospital Authority. Among them, 1 antheral has died.

The tempest was forecast to caput backmost to oversea and marque landfall adjacent successful bluish Vietnam, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

Kompasu earlier acceptable disconnected landslides and flash floods successful the bluish Philippines, leaving astatine slightest 13 radical dormant and 9 missing, catastrophe effect officials said Wednesday.

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