Thousands evacuated and flights grounded as Typhoon Champi hits eastern China

Typhoon Champi continued to batter China’s eastern coast on Saturday, grounding over a hundred flights and prompting the authorities to relocate tens of thousands of people, while weakening as it moved towards Japan.Flights from airports in Shanghai as well as Fujian and Zhejiang provinces were grounded.China Eastern Airlines said it had cancelled 39 domestic flights to and from Shanghai’s two main airports while flights to and from the cities of Fuzhou and Wenzhou were also affected.