Taiwanese driver recounts his narrow escape during Typhoon Kong-rey

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By JOHNSON LAI and KEN MORITSUGU

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A ride-hailing driver recounted Friday really he had constrictive flight erstwhile a immense character smashed onto his conveyance arsenic Typhoon Kong-rey swept complete Taiwan, besides sweeping distant metallic roofs and sending landslides onto roads and railway tracks and into houses.

Song Zi-jie had conscionable dropped disconnected riders successful Taipei, nan superior city, and was stopped astatine a reddish ray connected Thursday nighttime erstwhile a character was uprooted and fell squarely onto nan rider compartment of his car. He felt nan tile deed his caput and reclined his spot but couldn’t unfastened nan rear door. He laic location until constabulary recovered him.

“I was truthful frightened that I didn’t cognize what to do,” said Song, who wasn’t injured contempt nan extended harm to his vehicle. “It took maine a while to return to normal.”

Two group died, 4 group are missing and 580 others were injured by Kong-rey successful Taiwan. It weakened to a tropical large wind aft leaving nan land but was still bringing dense rainfall and windy conditions to Shanghai and adjacent parts of China’s eastbound seashore connected Friday.

Kong-rey, which is simply a Cambodian name, was heading northeast on nan seashore pinch winds of 83 kilometers (52 miles) per hr and could make landfall successful Zhejiang state earlier veering backmost retired to sea, nan National Meteorological Center said.

Zhejiang authorities evacuated astir 280,000 group and opened much than 10,000 emergency shelters up of nan storm, nan charismatic Xinhua News Agency said. Both Zhejiang and neighboring Fujian state besides suspended aggregate ferry routes.

In Taiwan, a Czech mates who had gone missing while hiking successful nan mountains were recovered and airlifted retired of Taroko National Park by chopper connected Friday. They told Taiwanese TV web EBC that they hadn’t been alert of nan approaching typhoon but were capable to telephone for thief pinch their mobile phones and mostly stayed successful their shelter until rescuers arrived.

The 2 fatalities successful Taiwan were a man deed by a inferior rod that fell complete erstwhile a character dragged down adjacent powerfulness lines successful Taipei and a Thai female who was successful a mini motortruck that was deed by a tree.

Workers trim and cleared up fallen trees successful Taipei connected Friday, while schools and offices mostly reopened and nationalist services were gradually restored crossed Taiwan.

The typhoon passed northbound of nan Philippines earlier successful nan week, prompting caller evacuations conscionable days aft devastating Tropical Storm Trami killed astatine slightest 145 people.

Intense rainfall and flooding caused successful portion by Trami besides killed 7 group successful China and 8 group successful Vietnam this week, Xinhua reported. The deaths successful China were successful Hainan province, a confederate land known for its formation resorts.