Three people were killed and more than 26 are still missing in two landslides in east China’s Zhejiang Province as Typhoon Megi wrecked havoc forcing relocation of over 3.15 lakh people.
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Heavy typhoon rains caused the landslide to crash into Sucun village, said the official Xinhua news agency.
Six persons in Baofeng village were also missing on Wednesday night after their homes were destroyed by another landslide.
Television images showed people wading knee-deep through the streets of Fujian’s capital Fuzhou and emergency workers using inflatable rafts to rescue others who had been stranded by the high waters.
At least four people died in Taiwan, as the storm blasted across the island en route to China, NPR’s Anthony Kuhn tells our Newscast unit.
Two villages were hit particularly hard with separate mudslides.
Xia Baolong, secretary of the Party’s provincial committee, arrived at the village yesterday morning to take command of rescue efforts and comfort those affected by the tragedy.
About 150 police and paramilitary police officers and firefighters rushed to the scene to help search for survivors.
“Seventeen homes were also flooded”.
About 656,000 residents have been relocated and almost 700 were in urgent need of basic living supplies, said the statement.
“Our work now is to save people, survivors above all, and at the same time prevent further secondary disasters occurring”, said the Suichang County Armed Forces chief on state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).
The landslides were caused by heavy rainstorms which were brought by Typhoon Megi.
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“It was the strongest storm in the world this year and the most intense typhoon since Super Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in 2013”, said Peter Sousounis, assistant vice president and director of meteorology at AIR Worldwide.
