The death toll from Typhoon Kaemi has risen to 35 on the Chinese
mainland including six at a military barracks in east China's Jiangxi Province, with at least 72 others
missing, local flood control sources said on Friday evening.
Officials with the Jiangxi office of flood and drought relief
have announced that the civilian death toll in the province has
jumped to 20, with Kaemi provoking floods and landslides.
The number of people missing in Jiangxi is now 22. This does not
include the 38 soldiers who went missing when their military
barracks was swept away. The whereabouts of the soldiers is still
not known.
Typhoon Kaemi, the fifth typhoon of the year, has also killed
four people in Anhui and five in Guangdong since making landfall in
southeast China's Fujian Province at 3:50 PM Tuesday. Five people
were reported missing in Anhui and seven in Hunan.
Kaemi has affected a total of 6 million people in Fujian,
Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan and Guangdong since it unleashed continuous
rainstorm which triggered flood and landslide. More than 1.3
million people from these provinces were forced to evacuate.
(Xinhua News Agency July 31, 2006)