BEIJING - A typhoon that pummeled Taiwan lashed the Chinese mainland with heavy rain and winds Sunday, leaving a total of 22 people dead or missing.
Typhoon Soudelor made landfall in China’s Fujian province late Saturday, and was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved across the region.
Rain from the typhoon triggered mudslides in mountainous Pingyang county in Zhejiang province, north of Fujian, killing nine people and leaving three others missing, the county government said.
The Fujian Civil Affairs Department said the storm collapsed 36 houses and damaged 281 others. Authorities had evacuated more than 370,000 people and ordered about 32,000 boats back to port before the typhoon struck land.
State media showed people wading in knee-deep water in the provincial capital of Fuzhou and said some streets were submerged under more than 30 inches of water.
In Taiwan, where the typhoon made landfall Saturday, the National Fire Agency said 10 people had been killed or were missing, and another 185 were injured. The dead or missing included a mother and her twin 8-year-old girls, who were all swept out to sea, and a firefighter, who died when he was hit by a drunken driver while attempting to move a fallen tree.
The storm downed trees, traffic lights and power lines on the island, causing more than 4 million households to lose electricity. More than 500 flights were canceled or delayed.
In Fujian, strong winds caused power outages to more than 1.41 million households before the storm made landfall, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Three airports were closed and more than 530 flights canceled, while more than 7,000 soldiers and police were on standby, provincial authorities said - AP
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