BEIJING -- The chiefly powerful ty...

BEIJING -- The chiefly powerful typhoon to hit China in a half hundred killed 105 and left at least 190 missing Friday after it blacked gone out cities and smashed more than 50000 houses in the southeast part of the region

More than 16 million were evacuated from the path of simoom Saomai before it struck late Thursday with winds gusting up to 170 mph the official Xinhua of the present days Agency said.

moreover it weakened to a tropical storm Friday morning, and according to midday the Hong Kong Observatory said its winds had fallen, dropping it to tropical depression status.

Hardest hit was Wenzhou, a coastal city where at least 81 were killed and 11 were missing, the official Xinhua just discovereds Agency said.

It said Wenzhou tolerateed $560 million in damage, including more than 18000 flattened houses.

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