Death toll grows as strongest typhoon to strike China in 50 years makes landfall
Friday, August 11, 2006
BEIJING -- The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades raged across its southeastern coast Thursday, claiming at least 111 lives as it capsized ships, destroyed buildings and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.
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