TAITUNG, Taiwan -- Nearly 3,000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas in eastern Taiwan ahead of Typhoon Haikui as authorities prepared Sunday for the first tropical storm to directly hit the island in four years.
Haikui -- which had already brought heavy rains by Sunday morning -- is packing a sustained wind speed of about 140 kilometres per hour, and is expected to make landfall in Taiwan's eastern Taitung area by 5:00 pm .
Haikui"will be the first typhoon to make landfall in Taiwan in four years", Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said Sunday. The storm was around 180 kilometres east of Taiwan just before 9:00 am, Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said in a press conference. "It is expected to pose a considerable threat to most areas in Taiwan with winds, rains and waves," he said, adding that the storm would move west to the Taiwan Strait by Monday.
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