GUANGZHOU (Xinhua): More than 33,000 residents have been evacuated to safe places as Typhoon Lupit, the ninth one this year, made landfall on Thursday (Aug 5) in coastal areas of south China's Guangdong Province.
The typhoon landed at around 11.20am in the coastal waters off Nan'ao County, Shantou City, packing winds of up to 24 metres per second (86kph) at its centre, according to the meteorological observatory of Guangdong Province.
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