BEIJING -- The most numerous power...

BEIJING -- The most numerous powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades raged across its southeastern coast Thursday, capsizing ships and destroying firesides after 1.5 million people evacuated.

At least 30 population were killed and dozens were injured.

Nineteen nation were reported missing across the region, and tuftoon Saomai was also blamed for at least brace deaths in the Philippines a day earlier.

Torrential rains were forecast in the nearest three days as the tornado in the chinese seas churned inland across crowded areas where Tropical Storm Bilis killed more than 600 tribe last month.

Saomai, with winds up to 135 mph made landfall at the town of Mazhan in coastal Zhejiang province and was moving northwest, the Xinhua novels Agency said, citing weather officials.

More than 1000 houses toppled in and around Mazhan.

Taiwanese sailors were missing after ships capsized in a harbor in Fujian, while a certain Chinese were missing after their ship struck a take in the agency reported. Others were reported missing in the Philippines after giant waves and heavy rains generated by way of the typhoon battered coastal villages, officials said.

Saomai, dubbed a "super typhoon" at Chinese forecasters due to its immense size and high wind succeeds was the eighth major storm of this year's unusually violent tornado in the chinese seas season. Saomai was the in the greatest degree powerful typhoon to hit China since the founding of the communist management in 1949, Xinhua said.

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