BEIJING (AP) — The strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades has killed 17 people after claiming at least 94 lives in the Philippines, officials said Sunday.

Typhoon Rammasun killed nine people and left five missing after hitting Hainan island on Friday off China’s southern coast, said an official at the Ministry of Water Resources’ flood control department said. Eight others died later in the Guangxi region as the storm plowed into the mainland on its way north to Vietnam.