A few days ago I mentioned Typhoon Talim hitting Taiwan and moving to the east coast of China. About 1 thousand people are killed in China each year during typhoon season.

About 40 died in the province of Anhui when Talim made landfall on Thursday, and 14 died in the city of Wenzhou, China’s Xinhua news agency reported.

Some 400,000 people were affected by the storm, which caused an estimated $877m (£476m) worth of damage.

The weakening storm hit China on Thursday after killing two people and injuring dozens in Taiwan.

By Saturday Talim had weakened to a tropical storm as it moved further inland.

More than 100,000 people had been evacuated from their homes in Anhui, with 400,000 people in the province affected by the storm.

Up to a million people were moved from low-lying coastal flood plains in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, Xinhua said.

BBC