Waves from Super Typhoon Ragasa crash onto chairs by the shore in Hong Kong on Sept. 23, 2025. Tyrone Siu/Reuters
HONG KONG/SHENZHEN, China—Typhoon Ragasa, the world’s most powerful tropical cyclone this year, barreled towards tens of millions of people in southern China on Wednesday after killing 14 people in Taiwan, leaving scores missing, and lashing Hong Kong with ferocious winds and heavy rains.
Some 129 people are missing in Taiwan’s eastern Hualien county, after a barrier lake overflowed and sent a wall of water into a town, the Taiwan fire department said on Wednesday, with Ragasa’s outer rim having drenched the island since Monday.
