Ty­phoon Koinu swept south­ern Tai­wan on Thurs­day, killing one per­son and in­jur­ing more than 300 as it brought pound­ing rain and record-break­ing winds to the is­land, lead­ing to school and of­fice clo­sures.

One per­son was killed by fly­ing glass in the cen­tral city of Taichung and at least 304 were in­jured around the is­land, Tai­wan’s fire de­part­ment said. Gusts of wind downed trees and caused dam­age to some build­ings.

Koinu, which means “pup­py” in Japan­ese, made land­fall ear­ly Thurs­day in Cape Elu­an­bi, the south­ern­most tip of Tai­wan, and is ex­pect­ed to weak­en as it moves west to­ward the Guang­dong and Fu­jian provinces of south­ern Chi­na.

The ty­phoon brought the fastest wind ever record­ed in Tai­wan as it ap­proached on Wednes­day night. A weath­er mon­i­tor­ing sta­tion on the out­ly­ing Or­chid Is­land, south­east of the main is­land, mea­sured a gust of 342.7 kph (212.9 mph) at 9:53 p.m., as well as sus­tained winds that reached 198.7 kph (123.5 kph) at 9:40 p.m. Both val­ues set all-time highs since Tai­wan be­gan keep­ing records of wind speeds in 1897, said Huang Chia-mei, head of the Cen­tral Weath­er Ad­min­is­tra­tion’s Taitung Weath­er Sta­tion, ac­cord­ing to the of­fi­cial Cen­tral News Agency.

The de­vice mea­sur­ing the wind speeds broke short­ly af­ter­ward, Huang said.

Im­ages shared on so­cial me­dia from Or­chid Is­land showed build­ings with bro­ken win­dows and boats sunk in a har­bor.

On Thurs­day evening, Koinu’s max­i­mum sus­tained winds mea­sured 137 kph (85 mph) with gusts of 173 kph (107 mph).

The heav­i­est rain fell in the east-coast coun­ties of Taitung and Hualien, and in the moun­tain­ous Ping­tung coun­ty in the south.

Cities across the is­land can­celed work and class­es, in­clud­ing the ma­jor south­ern port city of Kaoh­si­ung. The cap­i­tal, Taipei, in the north, was op­er­at­ing as nor­mal.

Most do­mes­tic flights and dozens of in­ter­na­tion­al flights were can­celed, ac­cord­ing to the trans­porta­tion min­istry, while fer­ries to out­ly­ing is­lands were al­so sus­pend­ed.

De­spite weak­en­ing, ty­phoon Koinu is ex­pect­ed to douse coastal ar­eas of south­ern Chi­na over the week­end. The city of Guangzhou can­celed some flights and trains start­ing Fri­day, while its mar­itime au­thor­i­ties is­sued a Lev­el 4 alert — the least se­vere in a four-tier sys­tem, call­ing for cau­tion.

In Fu­jian province, bor­der­ing the Tai­wan Strait, au­thor­i­ties sus­pend­ed 137 pas­sen­ger fer­ry trips.

Tai­wan sits in an ac­tive re­gion for trop­i­cal cy­clones, but Koinu is on­ly the sec­ond ty­phoon to make land­fall in four years. Ty­phoon Haikui hit the is­land in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber, in­jur­ing dozens.

As­so­ci­at­ed Press video jour­nal­ist John­son Lai and re­searchers Bing Yu and Wan­qing Chen in Bei­jing con­tributed to this re­port.

BY SIM­I­NA MIS­TRE­ANU

TAIPEI, Tai­wan (AP)