Latest World News: Typhoon Bebinca: Shanghai slammed by strongest storm to hit city since 1949, flights cancelled Typhoon Bebinca: The strongest storm in over 70 years hit Shanghai disrupting the mid-autumn festival. With winds up to 120 km/h, it forced evacuations and cancellations of flights, rail services, and road closures across the Yangtze River Delta region. Typhoon Bebinca: The strongest typhoon in more than seven decades has struck China’s financial capital, bringing gale-force winds and heavy rain to the eastern seaboard and disrupting holidaymakers at the start of a days-long national festival. Typhoon Bebinca — known as Beibijia in China — crossed the coast in the Yangtze River Delta region at around 7:30 a.m. local time on Monday, according to reports from state media. The storm is expected to dump rain across the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces as it moves inland and weakens. Shanghai, a mega-city of 25 million people, initiated a top-level emergency response on Sunday, suspending railways, closing ports, bridges and highways. All flights in and out of the city’s two airports were canceled in the evening, according to the airport operator. Bebinca is the second storm to hit China in a matter of weeks, after Super Typhoon Yagi struck Hainan island in the nation’s south, killing people and causing widespread damage. The system then moved into northern Vietnam and Thailand, flooding households and swamping infrastructure. MORE INFORMATION : http://www.4mark.net/story/12706367/latest-world-news-typhoon-bebinca-shanghai-slammed-by-strongest-storm-to-hit-city-since-1949-flights-cancelled-24onlive.in