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Typhoon Matsa weakens after killing three
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-08-07 18:21
Typhoon Matsa has weakened to a tropical storm as it has plowed north up
China's coast, but eastern provinces are still bracing for torrential rains and
possible floods, the Reuters reported.
On Saturday, two people were killed and two were missing
in Zhejiang province when mudslides slammed into their mountainside homes, the
China News Service said.
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Chinese rescuers
search for survivors after a landslide buries a house in Leqing City, East
China's Zhejiang Province August 6, 2005. Two migrant workers was killed
in the landslide. Typhoon Matsa caused great damages to the city, bringing
down more than 1,000 houses and leading to 900 million yuan in direct
economic loss.[newsphoto]
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More than one million people had to flee their homes in Zhejiang after the
typhoon made landfall at dawn on Saturday.
It moved north and further inland by Sunday morning, lashing Anhui province
with downpours but not the kind of fierce wind and rain that caused 6.5 billion
yuan ($800 million) in losses in Zhejiang alone, China News Service said.
Anhui and Jiangsu province on the coast tightened patrols of river dykes and
told fishing vessels to return to port for their own safety, Xinhua news agency
said.
People's Liberation Army soldiers rushed into Xiangshan
county in Zhejiang on Saturday to plug breaks in dykes along the swollen Grand
Canal, a centuries-old waterway that runs from the southeastern city of Hangzhou
to Beijing that was threatening to inundate farms and villages, state television
reported.
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