Typhoon Lekima ravaged China: 44 dead and destroyed | Chronic

Typhoon Lekima, which left 39 dead and more than five million people affected last Saturday in China, returned to earth Sunday "degraded into a tropical storm" and caused five more deaths, so the total balance is up to here from "At least 44 dead, 18 missing and nearly 1.1 million evacuees", local authorities reported.

They also stated: "The last five deaths were recorded in the port city of Qingdao, they are 39 in Zhejiang Province, also in the east of the country, after the typhoon came in at dawn on Saturday".

In Yongjia County, located in this region, torrential rains caused a landslide that blocked rivers near a reservoir and dragged people from nearby towns.

At the scales, they added a death recorded in Taiwan, where a 64-year-old man died after falling from a tree while he was pruning branches as a precaution before the typhoon came.

Lekima lost strength during his stay in the Asian country, from supertiphon to typhoon Saturday and typhoon to tropical storm Sunday, he said EFE.

After 11 am (local time) on Sunday, relief operations continued, involving more than 21,000 soldiers, while those affected exceeded "Six and a half million people in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Fujian, as well as in Shanghai City".

The number of evacuees, meanwhile, stands at nearly 1.1 million, while in Zhejiang, province where the Lekima touched down on Saturday, more than 180,000 hectares of crops and 34,000 homes been damaged, which means "direct economic losses of about $ 2,230 million".

With winds reaching 187 kilometers to the hour when it hit the ground, the typhoon – the ninth recorded this year at the Asian giant – was also forced to cancel hundreds of ferries and of flights and cut sections of some railway lines.

In addition, a marine center under the Ministry of Natural Resources warned that sea level would rise Monday "between 30 and 60 centimeters on the Shandong Peninsula"although growth "It could reach two meters in the bays of Laizhou and Bohai", two of the three that form the Yellow Sea.

The port of Dalian, one of the country's major, located in northeastern Liaoning Province, has suspended all maritime services and the Disneyland amusement park in Shanghai has been forced to close for the first time for weather reasons since its inauguration in 2016.