HONG KONG (Reuters) - A powerful typhoon slammed into south China on Thursday killing two children and forcing the evacuation of more than 630,000 people, Xinhua news agency said, while Vietnam was searching for 99 fishermen missing at sea.
Typhoon Chanchu, the strongest typhoon on record to enter the South China Sea in May and packing heavy rain and winds up to 170 kph, made landfall between the cities of Shantou and Xiamen and was heading northeast, the Hong Kong Observatory said.
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