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(File pix) In this July 8, 2016, file photo, a Filipino girl
is carried along a flooded road in suburban Mandaluyong, east of Manila,
Philippines, as monsoon downpours intensify while Typhoon Nepartak exits the
country. AP Photo
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A tropical storm in China left six people dead and at least
eight more missing, reports said, after it lashed Taiwan with typhoon-grade
winds and rain.
Super Typhoon Nepartak brought chaos to Taiwan Friday,
forcing more than 15,000 people to flee their homes as part of the island saw
its strongest winds in over a century.
It had weakened into a tropical storm by the time it made
landfall in Fujian province on Saturday, but still wreaked havoc, with pictures
showing cars upended, buildings ripped apart and towns left wallowing in a
thick sludge of brown mud.
By late Sunday more than 200,000 residents in 10 mainland
cities had been temporarily relocated and some 1,900 homes destroyed, the
official Xinhua news agency said, citing the civil affairs ministry.
Six people had been reported dead and eight missing, it
added, with direct economic losses estimated at 860 million yuan ($129
million).
Power was cut for hundreds of thousands in Fujian, while
five airports were closed and hundreds of high-speed train journeys cancelled,
the Global Times newspaper reported Monday.
Nepartak killed three
people in Taiwan injured more than 300, according to the island’s central
emergency operation centre.
China’s national meteorological centre on Monday put out a
blue alert for heavy rain across 14 provinces and regions – the lowest in a four-tiered
warning system.
-AFP
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