CHINA - Chinese typhoon toll passes 250

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Monday, 14 August 2006,

12:12 GMT 13:12 UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese

typhoon toll passes 250

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dozens of people

were killed when houses collapsed

 

 

 

Typhoon Saomai, the most

powerful storm to hit China in 50 years, killed at least 255 people as it tore through the

country's south-east, state media said.

Another 160 people are still missing in the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, Xinhua news

agency said.

In Fujian's Fuding city

138 people were killed, mostly fishermen who stayed on their boats during

last week's storm.

Saomai, which brought high winds and torrential rain, was the

eighth typhoon to hit China this season.

Many of the Fuding deaths occurred in Shacheng town, after some

fishermen chose to remain on their boats during the storm, Xinhua news agency

reported.

" The wind was so strong that it overturned many ships and a

large number of people were killed or went missing, " Xinhua said.

 

 

 

 

Many fishermen

chose to remain on their boats

 

 

 

By Sunday, 97 bodies had been found in the town,

the agency said.

A Shacheng resident told the AFP news agency that people were

renting boats to search for their relatives.

" They sail up to each body and turn it around in the water

and see if they recognize the face, " she said.

Collapsed

Shacheng borders Zhejiang's Cangnan

county, where Typhoon Saomai made landfall on Thursday

evening.

Forty-three people died there, including 41 who were killed when

concrete structures they were sheltering in collapsed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4788841.stm

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