48 Die, 190 Injured as Typhoon Strikes China; Farmland Flooded
BEIJING — Typhoon Vera killed 48 people, injured 190 and left 26 missing when it struck the East China province of Zhejiang, the New China News Agency said today.
It said the typhoon, the worst to hit the province in 27 years, flooded the port of Shujiang, closed down a major power plant and inundated 195,200 acres of rice fields and orange groves Friday and Saturday in the area south of Shanghai.
Torrential rain caused many rivers and ponds to breach their banks and many rivers to exceed danger levels, the agency added, but it gave no more details.
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