Super Typhoon Saola floods streets in southern China

High winds and flooding arrive in the city of Shanwei as Super Typhoon Saola sweeps across southern China, threatening to become the strongest storm to hit the region in decades.

China's national weather office had predicted Saola "may become the strongest typhoon to make landfall in the Pearl River Delta since 1949", referring to a low-lying region that includes Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong province.