Sunday, August 9, 2009

Typhoon forces evacuation of 1 million Chinese


TAIPEI, Taiwan: Typhoon Morakot churned toward China forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people Sunday, a day after lashing Taiwan with A hotel building leans before falling into a river after typhoon Morakot hit Taiwan. torrential rains that caused the worst flooding on the island in 50 years.

Twenty-nine people were missing in southern Taiwan, the Disaster Relief Centre said, and a woman was killed when her vehicle plunged into a ditch in Kaohsiung county in heavy rain Friday.

Morakot was centred 42 miles (70 km) off China's southeastern Fujian province Sunday morning. Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau said the storm had winds of up to 67 miles per hour (108 km per hour) and was headed northwest toward China at a speed of 7 mph (11 kph).

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