Death Toll Climbs to 87 as Storm Batters Asia
Asia’s death toll from Tropical Storm Chanchu has reached 87, with nearly 200 Vietnamese fishermen still missing at sea, officials said Friday.
The missing fishermen were involved in two separate incidents in the South China Sea. Ten boats were known to have sunk and five were missing.
Twenty-four fishermen have been found dead and 61 have been rescued, Vietnamese officials said.
The storm has battered several areas around the South China Sea since it rose to typhoon strength and killed 37 in the Philippines a week ago.
Chanchu was downgraded from a typhoon Thursday, but it still caused landslides and flooding in China and forced the evacuation of more than 1 million people.
Landslides and collapsing buildings killed 15 people in China’s Fujian province and left four missing, the provincial Water Resources Department said on its website. Eight more died in Guangdong province, it said.
Flooding in Taiwan swept two women to their deaths. A swimmer was killed in southern Japan. Early today, Chanchu appeared to be headed toward northern Japan.
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