Typhoon Yagi kills 2, injures 92 in China's Hainan as it heads to Vietnam

A powerful typhoon killed two people and left at least 92 injured in the southern Chinese island of Hainan, authorities said Saturday, with heavy rains and winds causing power outages in over 800,000 households.

The typhoon Yagi is currently en route to northern Vietnam over the Gulf of Tonkin Saturday, with Vietnamese authorities describing Yagi as one of the most powerful typhoons in the region over the past decade.

The typhoon on Friday afternoon struck Hainan's Wenchang city, with wind speeds of up to about 245 kph (152 mph) near its centre.

China's national meteorological authorities said Yagi was the strongest autumn typhoon to have landed in China.

Some 420,000 residents were relocated in Hainan prior to the typhoon's landfall in Hainan. Another half a million people in Guangdong province were evacuated before Yagi made a second landfall in the province's Xuwen County on Friday night.

Haikou's meteorological observatory downgraded its typhoon signal from red to orange on ..