Relief efforts are still underway after Typhoon Rammasun battered the coast of southern China, with the death roll increasing to 46 and millions of people affected, according to local civil affairs authorities in several provinces.
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Rammasun, the strongest typhoon to hit southern China in four decades, brought gales, downpours and floods to a number of southern provinces, wreaking havoc for more than 9 million people in the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong and Yunnan and in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
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Thirty deaths were reported in Hainan province, nine in Guangxi and 18 in neighboring Yunnan, according to tallies based on central and local government figures.
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More than 800,000 people have been resettled and more than 240,000 are in urgent need of basic necessities, authorities said.
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According to the Hainan provincial civil affairs authorities, more than 1,000 boxes of food, including cakes, bread and biscuits, have been sent to Wenchang, the city where the typhoon made landfall on July 18.Â
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Relief efforts are still underway after Typhoon Rammasun battered the coast of southern China, with the death roll increasing to 46 and millions of people affected, according to local civil affairs authorities in several provinces.
