Thousands of tourists were evacuated from islands off Taiwan Sunday as super typhoon Dujuan gathered strength on its approach to the island.
Taiwan’s weather bureau upgraded Dujuan to a “strong typhoon” — it’s top category — on Sunday evening as the storm approached the island’s east.
Other regional weather bureaus, including the Hong Kong Observatory, categorised it as a “super typhoon” as it intensified to reach gusts of 227 kilometres (141 miles) per hour.
Almost 3,000 people, most of them tourists, were evacuated from Taiwan’s Green Island and Orchid Island — popular with visitors — with heavy rains and high tides forecast.
The typhoon is due to make landfall in eastern Taiwan on Monday night.
