Hainan rocked as typhoon causes chaos

Flights, buses and rail services were canceled and schools closed as a typhoon with wind gusts of up to 144 km/h made landfall in Hainan province on Tuesday.

Typhoon Kalmaegi, the fifteenth to hit China this year, made landfall in Wengtian, a township in Wenchang, at 9:40 am.

As of 5 pm, 119 fights had been canceled at Haikou Meilan International Airport in the provincial capital. No flights were allowed to land or take off at the airport.