Shanghai evacuates 1.6 million ahead of Typhoon Wypha

Shanghai closed schools and 1.6 million people were evacuated from coastal areas today as Typhoon Wipha, forecast to be the most powerful storm to hit the region, thrashed toward the Chinese mainland.

One worker was killed and another seriously injured as the fringe of the typhoon lashed Taiwan, knocking down scaffolding at a highway construction site in Taipei, Taiwan’s Disaster Relief Centre reported.