No way through: A man standing near a fallen tree near his house after typhoon Lekima swept through the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province. — Reuters
BEIJING: Eighteen people were killed and 14 were missing in eastern China in a landslide triggered by a major typhoon, which also caused hundreds of flight cancellations and the evacuation of more than one million people, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Typhoon Lekima made landfall early yesterday in the eastern province of Zhejiang with maximum winds of 187kph, although it had weakened from its earlier designation as a “super” typhoon, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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