Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly one million people yesterday, a day after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.
Source: The World
- Twenty-nine people were missing in southern Taiwan, Taiwan's Disaster Relief Centre said, and a woman was killed when her vehicle plunged into a ditch in Kaohsiung county in heavy rain on Friday.
- Morakot's centre was 70km off China's southeastern Fujian province yesterday morning. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said the storm had winds of up to 108km per hour and was headed northwest toward China at a speed of 11km per hour.
- About one million people were evacuated from China's eastern coastal provinces by yesterday morning - more than 490,000 people in Zhejiang and 480,000 others in neighbouring Fujian. Authorities in Fujian called 48,000 boats back to harbour.
- The meteorological station in eastern Zhejiang issued a typhoon alert and said the storm was likely to make landfall sometime between noon and nighttime, bringing heavy rain to coastal areas.
- Thirty-nine outbound flights from the city of Wenzhou were cancelled yesterday, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
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