With wind gusts over 150 miles per hour Typhoon Dujuan has slammed into Taiwan. Dujuan has been categorized as a Super-typhoon and has left 24 injured as the incredible winds and massive rain battered the Island on Monday evening.
Most of the 24 people hurt suffered minor injuries, the island’s Emergency Operation Center said, many of them hit by flying debris.
More than 7,000 people have been evacuated in anticipation of the storm. About 200 people staying in emergency shelters.
So far, more than 330,000 home are without electricity and tens of thousands of troops are on standby.
Rainfall amounts have already reached 30 inches in some areas spawning fears of mudslides in the mountains.
China has issued its top alert as the storm approaches the mainland.