BEIJING, July 26: Eleven people were killed and 26 others left missing when torrential rains from Typhoon Kaemi caused widespread flooding in southeastern China on Wednesday, as about 750,000 evacuees remained in shelters.
The typhoon, which hit southeast China’s Fujian province on Tuesday packing winds of 120 kilometres an hour, was downgraded to a tropical storm on Wednesday morning, but still caused widespread chaos.
Seven of the dead were killed in east China’s Jiangxi province, which also had 19 people missing, the office of the national natural disaster reduction committee was quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying.—AFP
