The super typhoon is expected to skirt within 100km of the city tonight.
Residents walk past a shopping centre with its glass doors taped as a precaution against super typhoon Saola.
It could be among the five strongest typhoons to hit Guangdong since 1949, Chinese authorities said on Thursday as they issued their highest typhoon warning. Hong Kong has five rankings for typhoons, 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10, which is the strongest hurricane signal.
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