China: Tens of people died from typhoon Sepat

United Mail

Local sources say another person was killed by a landslide in Zhejiang province, causing the total death toll from typhoon Sepat to 15.

The new victim is a man in his 40s driving a truck in Cangnan County, Wenzhou City. The rock has fallen on the car carrying 19 people on the road. 18 people tried to escape, two of them were injured and being treated.

Typhoon Sepat brought heavy rain, about 40 mm / hour, into Wenzhou, disrupting power supplies in eight towns and villages. Before landing, Sepat caused a tornado to destroy many houses and killed 11 people in the Cangnan town of Wenzhou on Saturday night.

In Fujian Province, where storms landed, two people died and another person was lost due to landslides. Typhoon Sepat has swept into Sung Be town, Hoi An district, Quanzhou city in the early morning of Sunday, the entire northern and central Fujian submerged in heavy rain, strong winds. Rainfall measured from 8 am Saturday to 8 am Sunday is 200 mm in 11 in Fujian's 95 districts and exceeds 300 mm in the northern and central regions of the province.

Typhoon damaged 366 houses in Quanzhou City, Fujian, flooding 5.920 cultivated land, disrupting traffic and supplying electricity in some areas, affecting 162,600 people and economic losses of about 72 million. yuan.

Typhoon Sepat also caused much damage in Zhejiang Province, damaged 19,700 hectares of cultivated land, damaged 28.7 electric lines and damaged 22.1 km of irrigation dams, affecting 616,000 people in the province and causing economic losses followed by 250 million yuan (32.9 million). Zhejiang Province Meteorological Agency warns that heavy rains will continue to last until tomorrow morning (August 21).

The maximum rainfall in Wenzhou and Le Thuy is 200 mm, the coastal area of ​​the province has strong winds exceeding 97km / hour. Due to the effects of Typhoon Sepat, Shanghai also had heavy rain in the afternoon with 30mm of rain in two hours, wind power of 51km / hour.

In the eastern province of Guangdong, storms have affected many districts but there is no specific information on the level of casualties or economic losses. In Chaozhou city yesterday afternoon, the rainfall measured from 8 am to 9 pm was 60 mm.

Big waves in Dongle Island, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang
(Photo: english.zjol.com.cn)

Early on August 20, Typhoon Sepat made landfall in Jiangxi, eastern China. Most of Jiangxi Province is submerged in flooding. Vinh Phong district - the most heavily affected area, measured rainfall of 327 mm at 8 am. The provincial meteorological agency has warned people to be cautious about flooding and subsequent disasters.

Hunan Province sent 2.25 million messages to the people in the province about typhoon Sepat - expected to affect Hunan tonight.