BEIJING — A storm drenched China’s southeast on Sunday after killing five people on Taiwan and prompting the evacuation of 1.4 million people on the mainland, officials said. In Vietnam, the death toll from a separate storm rose to 55.
Typhoon Krosa came ashore in China’s Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, but weakened and was soon downgraded to a tropical storm, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
It said no deaths or injuries were reported, but the storm wrecked houses and knocked out power in the port city of Wenzhou as torrential rains swept the region.
More than 1.4 million people were evacuated from coastal areas, Xinhua said.
About 75,000 fishing vessels in the two provinces were ordered back to port and trips by ferries and sightseeing boats were canceled, the agency said.
Meanwhile, the death toll from Typhoon Lekima, which hit Vietnam’s central coast late Wednesday, rose to 55, with another 16 people missing, officials said Sunday.
The death toll in Vietnam’s worst-hit central province of Nghe An rose to 22 after eight more bodies were discovered over the past two days, said provincial disaster official Pham Hong Thuong.
“Communication to many parts of the province is still cut off,” Thuong said. “The death toll is likely to rise.”
Lekima also damaged about 77,000 homes, the government said.
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