Early Saturday morning super typhoon Rammasun made its second landfall in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in Southwest China.

The National Meteorological Center (NMC) said in a statement, that the region was blazed with downpours and packed gales up to 48 m/s.

In Shenzhen three people were killed Friday, when they sought shelter outside the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Luohu district. Eight others were injured, when a 20-metre-long awning collapsed amid rain from the super typhoon.

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NMC issued a red warning for typhoon and an orange warning for rainstorm on Saturday. Furthermore there is a forecast until Sunday morning for strong stormy weather in Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi and southwest China's Yunnan.

Rammasun made its first landfall in Wenchang City in the island province of Hainan on Friday afternoon, were a man was killed by falling debris from his house.

Xinhua reports, quoting disaster authorities, that more than 217,000 residents had been evacuated in Hainan, and about 30,000 in Guangdong. Here the provincial authorities have launched their highest level of emergency response. Construction projects, schools and businesses have been suspended in the cities of Maoming and neighbouring Zhanjiang.

The transportation of Haikou is paralyzed. Water supply and electricity is cut off. Rammasun might be the strongest typhoon to hit Hainan in 40 years. 

Latest reports from the NMC also forecast moderate to heavy rain in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and in the northeast China and north China from Sunday to Monday.

In Beijing smog is expected together with the neighboring port city Tianjin and parts of Hebei Province from Saturday to Sunday.

The typhoon is expected to move at 20 kilometers per hour northwest and run through southern parts of Guangxi before it starts to weaken.

Rammasun is the ninth typhoon in this year making landfall in China and considered the strongest in decades.

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