The death toll from Typhoon Lekima rose to 28 in eastern China, said local authorities on Sunday, as rescue teams worked to locate the missing ...
BEIJING: The death toll from Typhoon Lekima rose to 28 in eastern China, said local authorities on Sunday , as rescue teams worked to locate the missing after the storm triggered a landslide and forced more than a million people to evacuate.
"Currently, search and rescue work from various regions is still ongoing," they said on social media platform Weibo.More than a million people were evacuated from their homes ahead of the typhoon, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Around 110,000 people were housed in shelters. On Sunday, footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed rescue workers on boats navigating through Linhai city, where streets were completely submerged in muddy water.
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