Typhoon Longwang stroke Jinjiang in southeast China's Fujian
Province on Sunday after the cyclone churned across Taiwan, leaving
one dead and dozens injured.
?Longwang brought heavy winds and torrents, forcing Xiamen
city airport to close earlier Sunday.
Some 376,000 people had been evacuated and more than 38,700
boats brought back into harbor, local flood prevention officials
told Xinhua.
The people were moved from boats and aquiculture farms in
Ningde, Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou as well as
from low lands of the coastal region.
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Typhoon Longwang, the Chinese name for a legendary dragon king
which takes care of the world's rain, slammed into Taiwan Sunday
morning and left in the afternoon. A 60-year-old man and his wife
were hit by an iron bar which smashed into their home in the
eastern town of Chian, said?local fire agency which is
coordinating rescue operations.
The man died in hospital soon afterwards and his wife was in
critical condition, the agency said.
A woman was washed away by flash floods in the central town of
Hoping and was feared dead, it said.
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(Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, October 3, 2005)
