Powerful typhoon Damrey hits southern China
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-09-26 16:14

So far 173,000 people had been evacuated from low-lying areas along China's southern coast, China Central Television reported.

Officials in Vietnam meanwhile said that 100,000 people were being evacuated there, with the storm expected to hit a dozen Vietnamese provinces later on.

In the Hainan city of Wenchang, more than 130 millimeters (five inches) of rain had fallen since the morning, a meteorological official said, with the torrent expected to last all day.

All electricity in the city had been cut while at least two fatalities had been recorded by mid-morning, other officials said.

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