YANGJIANG, China, Sept 24, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Typhoon Ragasa made landfall in 
southern China on Wednesday, the national weather service said, after 
battering Hong Kong and killing at least 15 in Taiwan.

"Ragasa made landfall along the coast of Hailing Island, Yangjiang City, 
Guangdong Province around 5 pm (0900 GMT) on September 24," the National 
Meteorological Centre said.

In Yangjiang, AFP saw ferocious winds ripping signs off buildings, downing 
trees and destroying fences.

For a period of several hours on Wednesday, the powerful typhoon shook 
buildings as sheets of rain poured down on the city of more than two million 
people.

An AFP journalist saw firetrucks driving through mostly deserted streets as 
the winds whipped branches along the road and toppled motorbikes that had 
been parked along the pavement.

The weather service said that at the time of landfall, the maximum wind speed 
near the centre of the storm was 145 kilometres per hour (90 miles per hour).