July 6, 2026 3:05 PM
China’s Nanning on top alert as Typhoon Maysak triggers catastrophic flooding
Nanning, capital of China's southwestern Guangxi region, raised its flood control response to the highest level as rivers and reservoirs swelled with the passage of Typhoon Maysak, Chinese state media said on Monday. Now a slower-moving tropical storm, Maysak no longer has the winds of more than 50 miles per hour (80.5 kph) that lashed Vietnam and China's southern island province of Hainan over the weekend. But as the storm heads inland and weakens, it will dump the water it sucked up on its wa...