Typhoon Usagi causes flooding in southern China

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Published on Sep 24, 2013

Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people in Guangdong province of south China, the government has said.

Winds of up to 180 km/h (110 mph) were recorded in some areas, toppling trees and blowing cars off roads.

Its victims drowned or were hit by debris.The storm has affected 3.5 million people on the Chinese mainland.

Trains from Guangzhou to Beijing have been suspended and hundreds of flights from Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong have been cancelled.

However, Hong Kong has escaped the worst of the storm.

More than 80,000 people were moved to safety in Fujian province and the authorities have deployed at least 50,000 relief workers, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Power supplies in many parts of the province and in Guangdong have been cut off.The typhoon caused 7,100 homes to collapse and led to direct economic losses of 3.24 bn yuan ($526m; £329m), Xinhua added.

 

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8,000 evacuated as typhoon Usagi lashes central China

Xinhua, September 24, 2013

More than 8,000 people in central China's Hunan Province have been relocated as downpours triggered by typhoon Usagi swept the area starting on Monday.

The downpours have affected 16,600 residents from Lanshan and Daoxian Counties, which were also the worst-hit areas in Hunan when typhoons Utor and Trami made landfall in China in August, according to provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters.

About 800 hectares of crops were damaged, and rushing water destroyed bridges and breached river embankments, the headquarters said.

From 8 a.m Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday, the average precipitation reached 21.2 mm in the province, according to the provincial meteorological observatory.

Usagi -- Japanese for rabbit -- was designated a super typhoon on Saturday after it passed through the Philippines and Taiwan, moving toward China's mainland.

Although its power weakened on Sunday, the storm's winds still reached a speed of 45 meters per second at its eye upon landfall in south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday evening.

At least 25 people have been killed in typhoon Usagi and natural disasters triggered by the storm in China.