GUANGZHOU -- Typhoon Wipha, the sixth typhoon of the year, made a second landfall near Hailing Island in Yangjiang, South China's Guangdong province at around 8:15 pm on Sunday as a strong tropical storm, with a maximum wind speed near its center of 25 meters per second, the provincial meteorological observatory said.

It is expected to move west-southwestward at about 20 kilometers per hour while gradually weakening in intensity.

Earlier on Sunday at around 5:50 pm, Wipha first landed near Haiyan town of Jiangmen city in Guangdong, with a 33-meters-per-second maximum wind speed near its center.