Typhoon Dujuan brings downpours to E China

Heavy rain brought by Typhoon Dujuan lashed East China's Ningbo City, causing floods and cutting road access, but no casualties have been reported, the local government said Wednesday.

Storms pounded Ningbo in Zhejiang Province from Tuesday night to early Wednesday morning, with average precipitation of 194 mm, according the Ningbo City Meteorological Administration.

Forty-one road downtown sections were inundated, and more than 10 provincial highways and county roads were cut off, the city's flood control authorities said.

Primary and middle schools in Ningbo were ordered to close on Wednesday.

The rain also caused 36 reservoirs and 29 rivers in Zhejiang Province to exceed warning levels, said Hu Xiaowen, a flood control and drought relief headquarters official.

As of 7 am Wednesday, over 270,000 people in Wenzhou and Lishui cities have been affected by the rainstorm. Eleven houses collapsed and 22 factories suspended operation.

Authorities are still calculating the losses.

Typhoon Dujuan, the 21st typhoon this year, made landfall in neighboring Fujian Province on Tuesday morning, packing winds of up to 33 meters per second.

It caused power cuts for 1.5 million households in Fujian. Electricity supply has been restored to most homes.

Dujuan left at least two people dead and 324 injured after it first landed in Taiwan.