Strong storm kills at least 111 in China
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The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades raged across its southeastern coast Thursday, claiming at least 111 lives as it capsized ships, destroyed buildings and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.
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Ten people were killed and five others missing as a powerful typhoon lashed southern Japan with strong winds and heavy rains yesterday, causing deadly mudslides and prompting the evacuation of thousands of homes, officials said.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000  people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused  64.7 billion yuan ($7.82 billion) in direct economic losses,  the official Xinhua News agency said.
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At least 64 people are now known to have died as a result of torrential rain in south-western China. About 70 more are missing in what the Xinhua news agency describes as the most destructive storms of the year in Sichuan province and nearby Chongqing.
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Eleven electrical workers have died while trying to restore power to Chinese provinces that were plunged into darkness by the country's worst snow storm in 50 years, the state media reported Tuesday.
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Typhoon Wipha weakened as it slammed China with strong winds and torrential rains, officials said Thursday. At least nine people were reported killed as the storm destroyed thousands of homes and triggered landslides.
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Tropical storm Wipha lost much of its punch as it roared ashore over densely populated eastern China on Wednesday but continued to rake the region with heavy rains and high winds.
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Rain storms and floods have killed at  least 23 people across southern China in recent days and made  thousands homeless, Xinhua news agency said on Saturday.
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The death toll from torrential rainfall in China&#39;s Sichuan province rose to 19 Sunday, reported Xinhua, China&#39;s government-run news agency.
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The death toll from floods and landslides unleashed by ferocious storms lashing southwest China jumped to 143 with at least 50 more missing, state media reported.
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The death toll from Typhoon Saomai &#151; the strongest storm to hit China in 50 years &#151; rose to 114 Sunday as more evacuees died when buildings used as shelters collapsed, authorities said.
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Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 114 persons and left over 77 others missing in south-west China with the army being deployed to rescue thousands of marooned people, local officials said today.
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Unusually severe winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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Flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 14 people in southern China and forced 20,000 from their homes, a state news agency reported Sunday.
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The death toll in China from Tropical Storm Bilis has risen to 198, official media said, with 140 people still missing and heavy rain continued to pound the south of the country.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the country's worst power crisis, with one mountain-road accident blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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Typhoon Shanshan, which hit Japan over the weekend, has left nine people dead and more than 200 injured.