10 deadliest typhoons, hurricanes in history

Typhoon Meranti slammed into southeastern China on Thursday (15th Sept) with strong winds and heavy downpours, this year’s most powerful storm. It was initially classified as Category 5 typhoon, the strongest classification awarded by the Tropical Storm Risk storm tracker, before it made landfall in the Xiang’an District of Xiamen and has since been downgraded to Category 2.

In the wake of the recent disastrous typhoon that battered Taiwan and China, let’s take a look at the other destructive hurricanes/typhoons (in no particular order) in the history:

Inputs from www.wunderground.com and Wikipedia; Images from Getty and AFP