7 DEAD, 9 MISSING IN FUJIAN PROVINCE, CHINA AS TYPHOON MERANTI STRIKES

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Typhoon Meranti has left seven people dead and another nine missing in eastern China's Fujian Province, the local government announced Friday.





Meranti, the largest typhoon this year, made landfall in Xiamen at 3:05 a.m. Thursday, with a maximum 15-grade wind force bringing extraordinary rainstorms.
By 7 a.m. Friday, the typhoon had forced 331,000 in Fujian to relocate. The typhoon also destroyed 1,600 houses, damaged 22,200 hectares of crops and inflicted direct economic losses of 1.7 billion yuan (249 million U.S. dollars).


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