3 dead, 5 missing as Utor lashes south coast
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Three people have died and five others remain missing in south China due to Typhoon Utor, which has been bringing high winds and torrential rains to the region since Wednesday.
More than 1 million people in south China’s Guangdong Province have been affected by downpours and floods triggered by the typhoon, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said.
The typhoon has forced the relocation of 161,500 people, as well as destroyed nearly 1,500 homes, it added.
In the cities of Zhanjiang and Wuchuan, several villages were flooded, as embankments along the swollen Quehua River were breached on Wednesday. Four hundred armed police are participating in rescue efforts.
Utor was the strongest typhoon of the year before it crossed the Philippines earlier this week, killing at least seven people and leaving four missing.
The typhoon made landfall at 3:50pm on Wednesday near the city of Yangjiang in western Guangdong, packing winds of over 150 kilometers per hour at its center, meteorological authorities said.
It moved into the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the night and is expected to linger there for four days.
Yesterday, the railway bureau in Nanning, Guangxi’s capital, announced that sections of a railway linking the region to central China’s Hunan Province collapsed under heavy rain. Passenger services on the line were suspended on Wednesday but resumed gradually yesterday after completion of repairs.
About 245,000 people from three cities and seven counties in Guangxi have been affected by the downpours.
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