Twenty people were still missing on Sunday morning, the authorities in Zhejiang Province said.
Twenty people were still missing on Sunday morning, the authorities in Zhejiang Province said. The casualty toll caused by typhoon Lekima in eastern China has risen to 28, local authorities said on Sunday. Rescuers are still looking for missing people and over a million people have been evacuated.
The south of Shanghai mourning
Waves several meters high hit the coastline when the hurricane made landfall on Friday night in Zhejiang Province, south of Shanghai. A landslide caused the deaths of 18 people in the vast commune of Wenzhou, according to China News Agency. It was not specified whether the ten additional deaths were caused by the same accident.
One million evacuees
Twenty people were still missing on Sunday morning, the authorities in Zhejiang Province said. CCTV TV footage showed rescuers sailing on a boat in Linhai City on Sunday, whose streets were completely covered with muddy water. Lekima entered Jiangsu Province, north of Shanghai, and was expected later Sunday in Shandong Province, according to CCTV. No less than one million people were evacuated as the typhoon approached. More than 110,000 of them have been relocated to shelters.
