Typhoon leaves 16 dead after lashing Macau, Hong Kong

The death toll from Severe Typhoon Hato rose to at least 16 Thursday after the storm left a trail of destruction across southern China and battered Hong Kong skyscrapers. 


Eight died in the worst-hit gambling hub of Macau, where local media showed cars underwater and people swimming along what are normally streets. The enclave’s famed mega-casinos were running on backup generators.
One man was killed after being injured by a wall that blew down, another fell from a fourth floor terrace and another was a Chinese tourist hit by a truck. 


The Macau government said a male body was found in a carpark early Thursday, but details on the other victims there were not immediately available. 


The enclave’s sprawling Venetian casino resort was on back-up power Wednesday and without air conditioning or proper lighting, according to one source, while residents took to social media to complain about city-wide power and mobile phone network outages. 


Firefighters in Macau have been carrying out rescue work, while a cleanup operation is underway

Source: NNA