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Mon 08 Aug 2009Million flee as China battered by typhoon
A CHILD was killed, houses were flattened and nearly one million people were forced to evacuate their homes as typhoon Morakot battered China’s eastern coast yesterday, bringing heavy rains and with high waves battering the coast.
The tropical storm made landfall at 4:20pm local time at Beibi town in Fujian Province, packing winds up to 118.8km/h in its eye, the provincial meteorological bureau told Xinhua news agency.
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