CHINA / National
Typhoon death toll jumps to 255
(Agencies/Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-08-14 14:55
FUZHOU -- The death toll from typhoon Saomai had risen to 255 in China by
2 p.m. Monday, with another 41 bodies discovered in Fuding city in east
China's Fujian Province.
Over 160 others are still missing after Saomai wrought havoc in the
eastern provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi.
Distraught relatives and rescuers carry the body of a villager dug out
from rubble in Jinxiang Township, Cangnan County in Zhejiang Province,
August 11, 2006. The reported death toll in China from Typhoon Saomai
jumped to at least 214, after authorities in southeastern Fujian province
said the number of fatalities there had increased to 125. [Xinhua]
In Fuding, the worst hit city in Fujian, 138 people were killed, 1,350
injured and 86 others still missing.
Officials with Fujian Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief
Headquarters said most of the people were killed when the super strong
typhoon broke the moorings on their ships which had sought shelter in the
harbor.
The others were killed in typhoon-triggered incidents on land such as
flood, landslide and mud-flow.
Local authorities and residents are still searching for the missing.
The Fuding death toll update brings total fatalities in Fujian to a
staggering 166.
"Saomai has caused severe economic losses and fatalities in our
province," the Fujian provincial government's water resources department
said in a statement posted on its website.
Previous reports listed 87 dead and 52 missing in east China's Zhejiang
Province where Saomai barreled in, and two dead and one missing in nearby
Jiangxi Province.
Saomai, the eighth typhoon to hit China so far this summer, was the most
powerful to strike the mainland in half a century.
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