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Death toll of Typhoon Talim rises to 54
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-09-04 08:04
BEIJING - China on Saturday raised the death toll from Typhoon Talim to at
least 54, while 23 more people were listed as missing, state media
reported.
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| Chinese residents look for their belongings amid debris in a
typhoon-hit village in Wencheng county, Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang
province, September 2, 2005. [newsphoto] | The
death toll shot up after authorities in the eastern province of Anhui said 39
people, perhaps more, had lost their lives in the powerful typhoon and that nine
were missing, the Xinhua news agency said.
In Wenzhou city, in east China's Zhejiang province, 14 were confirmed killed,
while nine were missing in a series of thunderstorms, landslides and cave-ins
brought about by Talim, Xinhua said.
The eye of the typhoon had now passed over Anhui and was continuing inland,
entering Jiangxi province, the state-run news agency said.
In the Lushan mountain area near Jiangxi's border with Anhui, mudslides
buried two buildings while 11 occupants were inside, Xinhua reported.
One was dead by the time rescue crews found him, and five others were
injured. The remaining five were still missing as of late Saturday.
typhoon had caused severe property damage along its path, as heavy mud and
rock flows had engulfed roads and flattened homes, according to the agency.
In the counties of Yuexi and Jinzhai, the worst-hit in Anhui, a total of
400,000 people were affected by the typhoon, the agency said.
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