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Typhoon Khanun slams into East China province
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-11 16:58

Khanun, the No. 15 typhoon of this year has slammed into Taizhou city of East China's Zhejiang Province at 14:50 p.m. Sunday, the provincial source announced.


Chinese women struggle with their umbrellas in heavy rains brought about by Typhoon Khanun in Wenling, East China's Zhenjiang Province, Sunday, September 11, 2005. [Xinhua]
The typhoon, with force exceeding 12, will sweep the cities of Taizhou, Jinhua, Shaoxing, Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Huzhou and then enter the Taihu Lake.


A Chinese pushes his tricycle in the rain against gusts of wind as Typhoon Khanun made landfall in the east coast of China, Sunday, September 11, 2005. [Xinhua]
The province has so far evacuated 814,267 people to safer places, said sources with the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters, adding that about 35,409 ships and vessels have returned to ports.

The headquarters still issued an urgent notice urging local people to prepare for the possible mountain torrents and other geological disasters which might inflicted by typhoon and torrential rains.
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