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China Human Rights Net > Messages > Focus > China Combats Floods > Fengshen
Landslides kill one in east China as tropical storm Fengshen lands
 
 

NANCHANG, June 26, 2008 -- Landslides triggered by a heavy downpour have killed one person in east China's Jiangxi Province, where tropical storm Fengshen landed Thursday noon.

The victim, a villager in central Jiangxi's Yongfeng County, was buried by mud and rock late Wednesday afternoon and had died after being pulled out, said a spokesman with the provincial headquarters for flood control.

Fengshen, now downgraded to a tropical low pressure storm, made landfall in Ganzhou in southern Jiangxi Thursday noon after lashing neighboring Guangdong Province, the spokesman said.

Meteorologists forecast Fengshen would affect Jiangxi for 36 hours, bringing more heavy rain in the central and southern areas of the province. It was continuing to move northeastward.

Fengshen, which means the "God of Wind," made landfall at Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, early Wednesday, with winds of up to 83 km per hour.

One crewman was injured and another was missing after falling into the sea as their container ship made an emergency mooring off Shanwei City, Guangdong, at around 4 a.m. on Wednesday.

The storm was downgraded from typhoon level. Hundreds were dead or missing in the Philippines after the typhoon hit last week.

From June 6 to 16, nine provinces in China's east, south and southwest had experienced torrential rain, leaving at least 63 dead, 13 missing and 1.6 million people displaced, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

 
  from:Xinhuanet
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