Typhoon Wipha makes second landfall in south China's Guangdong

GUANGZHOU, July 20 (Xinhua) -- Typhoon Wipha, the sixth typhoon of the year, made a second landfall near Hailing Island in Yangjiang, south China's Guangdong Province at around 8:15 p.m. on Sunday as a strong tropical storm, with a maximum wind speed near its center of 25 meters per second, the provincial meteorological observatory said.

It is expected to move west-southwestward at about 20 kilometers per hour while gradually weakening in intensity.

Earlier on Sunday at around 5:50 p.m., Wipha first landed near Haiyan Town of Jiangmen City in Guangdong, with a 33-meters-per-second maximum wind speed near its center. ■