Typhoon forces evacuation of one million Chinese
Monday, 10 August 2009
BEIJING, Aug 9 (AP): Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly one million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.
Twenty-nine people were missing in southern Taiwan, Taiwan's Disaster Relief Centre said, and a woman was killed when her vehicle plunged into a ditch in Kaohsiung county in heavy rain Friday.
Morakot was centred 70 kilometres off China's southeastern Fujian province Sunday morning. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said the storm had winds of up to 108 kilometres per hour and was headed northwest toward China at a speed of 7 mph (11 kph).
Twenty-nine people were missing in southern Taiwan, Taiwan's Disaster Relief Centre said, and a woman was killed when her vehicle plunged into a ditch in Kaohsiung county in heavy rain Friday.
Morakot was centred 70 kilometres off China's southeastern Fujian province Sunday morning. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said the storm had winds of up to 108 kilometres per hour and was headed northwest toward China at a speed of 7 mph (11 kph).