Typhoon Gaemi Heads for China as Cargo Ship Sinks Off Taiwan

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Typhoon Gaemi Heads for China as Cargo Ship Sinks Off Taiwan

Typhoon Gaemi was churning toward China on Thursday afternoon as rescue personnel searched for nine sailors who went missing when a cargo ship sank in bad weather near Taiwan.

The tropical cyclone slammed into Taiwan on Wednesday night with wind speeds equivalent to those of a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean. It submerged roads, led to flight cancellations, and forced the closure of schools and businesses.

As of Thursday the storm had ******* at least 15 people in the Philippines, officials said. In Taiwan, at least three people were ***** and 380 others were injured.

Flooding was reported across southern Taiwan on Thursday. In an upscale area of the city of Kaohsiung, floodwaters submerged parked vehicles and many roads were inaccessible. In nearby Tainan, residents struggled to escape submerged houses.

There was trouble at sea, too.

A Tanzanian cargo ship sank early Thursday morning near Kaohsiung, officials on the island said. A rescue operation was underway for missing crew members, all of them from Myanmar. Three other ships were reported to be stranded near Taiwan.

A tanker carrying fuel oil also sank off the coast of the Philippines on Thursday, as the cyclone’s remnants complicated efforts to prevent the ship’s contents from spilling into the water. Sixteen crew members were rescued and at least one person *****.

Gaemi was moving across the Taiwan Strait early Thursday afternoon. It was expected to make landfall in the southeastern ******** province of Fujian in the late afternoon or evening with the force of a Category 1 hurricane.

Taiwan, an island of about 23 million people, ***** about 100 miles from the ******** mainland.

In China, the authorities in Fuzhou, Fujian’s provincial capital, banned group gatherings, closed schools and tourist attractions, and ordered the closure of nonessential businesses as the storm neared. Other coastal ******** provinces were evacuating tourists and asking ships to take shelter.

The storm was forecast to bring heavy rainfall to other parts of China, including Beijing, while moving inland over the next five days, the China Meteorological Administration said. Southern China has already faced weeks of heavy rain and deadly flooding.

The typhoon also

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to islands in the Yaeyama region of Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. Forecasters said that people in Yaeyama should expect to see some houses destroyed, and to prepare for heavy downpours, mudslides and flooded rivers.

In Taiwan, some local weather stations were recording more than four feet of rain from Typhoon Gaemi as of Thursday afternoon. The island’s Central Weather Administration estimated that the storm could drop more than seven feet of total rainfall.

More than 700,000 electricity customers in Taiwan have experienced power outages since Wednesday, according to Taipower, a state utility. About 13 percent of them were still without power on Thursday afternoon.

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world’s largest maker of advanced computer chips, had not been impacted by the storm, a company spokeswoman said.

Meaghan Tobin contributed reporting.

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