Relief efforts continue in typhoon's wake

Relief efforts are still underway after Typhoon Rammasun battered the coast of southern China, with the death roll increasing to 46 and millions of people affected, according to local civil affairs authorities in several provinces.

Rammasun, the strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades, brought gales, downpours and floods to a number of southern provinces, wreaking havoc for more than 9 million people in the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong and Yunnan and in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

Thirty deaths were reported in Hainan province, nine in Guangxi and 18 in neighboring Yunnan, according to tallies based on central and local government figures.