1M people evacuated as typhoon hits China

Monday, August 10, 2009

BEIJING -- A typhoon hit China's eastern coast Sunday, toppling houses, flooding villages and forcing nearly a million people to flee to safety. Officials rode bicycles to distribute food to residents trapped by rising waters.

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