For the seventh time this year, a typhoon has made landfall in south-east China, and Saudel has proven among the most punishing — driving nearly 600,000 people from their homes in Fujian province alone and leaving a trail of collapsed embankments, buried hillsides, and severed roads across four provinces. The storm dropped more than half a meter of rain in a single day in some places, a volume the land and its infrastructure could not absorb. At least three lives have been confirmed lost, nine remain missing, and the succession of storms arriving one after another suggests this is less a seaso
Typhoon Saudel triggers mass evacuations across south-east China
Nearly 600,000 evacuated in Fujian province; at least 3 killed in landslip, 9 missing; 1,260 rescued after embankment collapse; 2,500+ students and teachers trapped in school.