Typhoon Claims Lives of 53 on Chinese Mainland
Flooding and landslides triggered by Typhoon Talim killed at least 53 people on China’s mainland and left 21 missing, the government said Saturday.
At least 39 people were killed in the inland province of Anhui and 14 more in the southeastern coastal city of Wenzhou, the official New China News Agency reported, citing local authorities. The agency didn’t give any details of how the deaths occurred or the identities of the victims.
Talim roared ashore Thursday, wrecking houses, damaging crops and roads and knocking out power and phone services. Before it hit the Chinese mainland, the storm killed at least two people on Taiwan and injured 24 others.
The storm knocked down 11,789 houses in Wenzhou in Zhejiang province and damaged homes in the Dabie Mountain area of Anhui, the news agency said.
It said the Dabie Mountain area got 16 inches of rain over a 24-hour period from Friday to Saturday, a record for the region.
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