Thousands without power after Typhoon Haikui batters Taiwan

More than 40 people have been injured in Taiwan after Typhoon Haikui ripped across the island, uprooting trees and forcing thousands to evacuate. The storm - which made its first landfall yesterday on the east coast - was the first to directly hit the island in four years. Amid torrential rain and high winds, two people in a mountainous region were hurt after a falling tree hit a car. Dozens others were injured - mainly by falling debris, officials said. Haikui initially appeared to leave the island but made a second landfall early today in southwestern Kaohsiung, before it was downgraded to a severe tropical storm. There were no reports of deaths, but destruction was seen in coastal Taitung, a mountainous county in lesser-populated eastern Taiwan where the storm directly hit the day before. #TyphoonHaikui #Taiwantyphoonhaikui#Typhoontaiwan ~PR.153~ED.194~GR.124~HT.96~