Maritime departments of Wenzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province suspended ferry routes and evacuated tourists on Sunday as Typhoon Danas, the fourth of the year, approaches.
Danas intensified from a strong tropical storm to a full-fledged typhoon on Sunday morning.
On the same day, the Wenzhou City flood control, typhoon prevention and drought relief command center launched a level IV emergency response.
China has a four-tier emergency response system, with Level I being the most severe response.
As of 12:00 noon Sunday, 12 passenger ferry routes within Wenzhou's jurisdiction were suspended, and more than 1,500 tourists were safely evacuated from local remote islands.
The local fishery and maritime departments also conducted joint inspections on fishing boats docked at ports and reminded fishermen to reinforce their boats and take precautions against strong wind and collision.
East China city suspends ferry routes, evacuates tourists in face of typhoon Danas
The death toll from a landfill collapse in the central Philippine city of Cebu has risen to eight by Monday morning as search and rescue operations continued for another 28 missing people.
The landfill collapse occurred on Thursday as dozens of sanitation workers were working at the site. The disaster has already caused injuries of 18 people.
Family members of the missing people said the rescue progress is slow, and the hope for the survival of their loved ones is fading.
"For me, maybe I’ve accepted the worst result already because the garbage is poisonous and yesterday, it was raining very hard the whole day. Maybe they’ve been poisoned. For us, alive or dead, I hope we can get their bodies out of the garbage rubble," said Maria Kareen Rubin, a family member of a victim.
Families have set up camps on high ground near the landfill, awaiting news of their relatives. Some people at the site said cries for help could still be heard hours after the landfill collapsed, but these voices gradually faded away.
Bienvenido Ranido, who lost his wife in the disaster, said he can't believe all that happened.
"After they gave my wife oxygen, my kids and I were expecting that she would be saved that night because she was still alive. But the night came and till the next morning, they didn't manage to save her," he said.
Death toll in central Philippine landfill collapse rises to eight
