Thousands of flights cancelled as Typhoon Bavi hits eastern China bringing heavy rains

Typhoon Bavi made landfall in eastern China on Saturday night, the second major storm to hit the country in a week, causing thousands of flight and train cancellations while more than 2.4 million people were evacuated from areas in the path of the storm.

More than 2,800 flights were likely to be cancelled by Chinese airlines as of 8pm on Saturday, the state news agency Xinhua reported.

Shanghai’s Pudong and Hongqiao airports were set to cancel over 650 flights, about 30 per cent of their...