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In China, authorities are preparing for heavy rain as a strong typhoon approached the country’s heavily populated eastern seaboard. According to Beijing’s emergency management ministry, typhoon Bebinca is expected to make landfall along a swath of coastline including the megacity of Shanghai sometime between tonight and tomorrow morning. The ministry said in a statement that the storm would cause “heavy to torrential” downpours with “local heavy or extremely heavy rainstorms” between today and Tuesday.
The water resources ministry on Saturday launched a level-four emergency response for flooding in Shanghai and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.
In the Philippines, six people died and at least two were missing in the wake of tropical storm Bebinca. It was the sixth tropical cyclone to lash the Philippines since January this year. It has affected over two lakh people in nearly 300 villages.
An average of 20 typhoons pound the Philippines yearly, triggering severe flooding, landslides, and other extreme natural disasters.