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1 million evacuated as typhoon hits China

A typhoon slammed into China's east coast Sunday, flooding entire villages, destroying homes and forcing the evacuation of nearly a million residents, after lashing Taiwan with torrential rains that caused the island's worst flooding in 50 years. ...full story at CNews

from CNews on Sun, Aug 09 2009

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