Typhoons hammer eastern provinces

By Jin Zhu in Beijing and Sun Li in Fuzhou | China Daily | Updated: 2012-08-04 07:47

A woman picks up her belongings from the debris of a makeshift house destroyed in a typhoon in Ganyu, Jiangsu province, on Friday. Typhoon Damrey made landfall in the province late on Thursday night, bringing heavy rains and gales, and causing damages. Si Wei / for China Daily

More than 2 million residents in East China's coastal regions were affected by two typhoons on Friday, and one person died in Shandong province, even as the tempests weakened to tropical storms after making landfall.