From Guardian Unlimited:
More than 100 people were today reported to have died as the strongest typhoon to hit mainland China for 50 years battered industrial districts in the east of the country yesterday.
At least 41 people were killed when a concrete building collapsed in Jinxiang, an industrial town in Cangnan county close to where the typhoon hit land.
China’s official Xinhua news agency reported that 104 people had been killed in the provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, with 190 were missing. It said at least 54,000 houses had been destroyed. [Full Text]
