Typhoon Nuri lashes Hong Kong
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Typhoon Nuri has lashed Hong Kong with heavy rain and strong winds, sparking major flight delays, disrupting public transport and halting trade on the city's financial markets.
Schools and most offices in the southern Chinese territory were closed, and bus and ferry services suspended, as meteorologists issued the level-eight storm signal, signifying the likelihood of gale-force winds.
The Hong Kong Observatory said it may strengthen the signal to a nine or 10 as there was a chance the eye of the storm could hit the city later Friday.
Seven people were killed when Nuri slammed into the northern Philippines on Wednesday, packing maximum sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour and gusts of up to 170 kilometres an hour.
