More than a hundred thousand people were evacuated from Shanghai as Typhoon Pulasan brought heavy rains that broke local records in parts of the Chinese megacity.

Officials in China moved some 414,000 people out of the way in Shanghai before the strongest storm in decades flooded roads and cancelled flights.

The city canceled all flights at its two airports and closed major attractions, amid a three-day national holiday.

Bebinca made landfall around 7:30 a.m. in the sprawling Pudong business district with maximum winds of 151 kph near its center.

Shanghai was hit on Monday by the most powerful typhoon since at least 1949. Typhoon Bebinca flooded roads, uprooted trees, and left some residents without power. Shanghai, home to 25 million people,

Typhoon Bebinca struck Shanghai on Monday morning as a Category 1 storm, marking the most powerful storm to hit the city in over seven decades. The storm landed early Monday morning with wind speeds of nearly 100 mph,

Typhoon Bebinca has smashed into Shanghai with more than 400,000 people having to be evacuated in what is claimed to be the strongest storm to hit the Chinese city in more than 70 years.