Footage emerges of firefighters battling against gale force winds to rescue over 100 people stranded on a highway during a hurricane in China

A hurricane hit northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region on Saturday, leaving over 100 people stranded on a highway.

The gale force winds also created a sandstorm, with visibility dropping to less than seven feet.

Firefighters and highway traffic policemen arrived at the site with an armoured personnel carrier to rescue the travellers. They tied rope to the travellers' cars to help the passengers pull themselves into the rescue vehicle in the high winds.

All the people standed on the highway were rescued.