Tropical Storm Kong-rey threatens Shanghai and China's coast

BEIJING — 

Typhoon Kong-rey weakened to a tropical tempest overnight and was forecast to bring dense rainfall and precocious winds to Shanghai and different parts of China's eastbound seashore Friday.

The tempest crossed Taiwan astatine typhoon spot the erstwhile day, bringing down trees and causing landslides that covered roads and damaged houses. Two radical died and much than 500 others were injured.

As workers and residents cleared up fallen trees and scattered scaffolding, a ride-hailing operator recounted a harrowing communicative of being trapped successful his conveyance aft a immense histrion uprooted and smashed into the rider compartment Thursday nighttime successful Taipei, the superior city.

Elsewhere successful Taiwan, authorities successful the eastbound seashore state of Hualien said they had restored interaction with a Czech mates feared missing. The 2 had pitched a structure successful Taroko National Park and were successful bully condition, according to the authoritative Central News Agency.

Kong-rey, which is simply a Cambodian name, was heading northeast on the Chinese seashore with winds of 83 kph and could marque landfall successful Zhejiang state earlier veering backmost retired to sea, the National Meteorological Center said.

The passing tempest is expected to impact Shanghai and parts of Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces, with torrential rainfall of 10 to 12 centimeters imaginable successful immoderate areas.

Zhejiang and neighboring Fujian state suspended aggregate ferry routes up of the approaching storm.

In Taiwan, airy rainfall fell Friday greeting successful the superior of Taipei, portion island-wide, schools and offices had mostly reopened and nationalist services were mostly restored.

The typhoon passed northbound of the Philippines earlier successful the week, prompting caller evacuations conscionable days aft devastating Tropical Storm Trami killed astatine slightest 145 radical the erstwhile week.

Intense rainfall caused successful portion by Trami besides killed 7 radical successful China's Hainan state arsenic the tempest passed by the island, which is known for its formation resorts, disconnected the country's confederate coast.