Hong Kong again hit by storm
NZPA-Reuter ’ Hong Kong One policeman was killed and 11 people injured when | the tail of a severe tropical storm, “Elaine,” yesterday lashed Hong Kong with 70knot winds. Hong Kong, facing its second killer storm in a month, ground to a halt. All ferries, , trains, and buses were cancelled, and flights into the British colony were diverted to Taipei or Manila. The only death reported was a 28-year-old policeman struck by a flying object on a construction site. Eleven , other people were injured; three of them had to be hos- ■ pitalised. j Elaine, which had earlier (left at least two people dead ■in the northern Philippines (before hurtling across the ’South China Sea, passed' (about 190 km south of Hong I Kong yesterday morning, (heading for China.
a ' I Three people were killed: and 80 injured in Hong Kong last month during tro-j pical storm Agnes. About 300 squatters have! been moved from their flim-l sy hillside homes for fear of a landslide and 600 campers stranded on an outlying island have had to take shelter in community centres. A Royal Air Force helicopter on Saturday night braved high winds to airlift a 27-year-old pregnant woman to a central hospital from her home in the New Territories, the rural hinterland of Hong Kong. Elaine also severely dis-| rupted life in the nearby! Portuguese territory of! Macao, where high winds! were reported and three of the enclave’s four thriving: casinos were closed down. : Other gamblers played on; through the wind and the rain.
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