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MULTIMEDIA
May 26, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Typhoon forces evacuation of 1 million Chinese people

A collapsed hotel building is seen in floods after Typhoon Morakot hit Taitung county, eastern Taiwan, on Sunday.
10 August 2009 / AP, BEIJING
Typhoon Morakot slammed into China's east coast on Sunday just hours after nearly 1 million people evacuated the area.
It earlier lashed Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years and left dozens missing and feared dead. Morakot made landfall on Xiapu, a county in eastern China's Fujian province, carrying heavy rain and winds of up to 74 miles per hour (119 kilometers per hour), according to an official at the China Meteorological Administration who refused to give his name or provide other details. Taiwan, meanwhile, was recovering after the storm dumped more than 80 inches (200 centimeters) of rain on some southern counties on Friday and Saturday, the worst flooding to hit the area in half a century, the Central Weather Bureau reported.

 
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