TWO DEAD AS TYPHOON CONSON HITS SOUTHERN CHINA

17.07.2010 [18:32]
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Baku, July 17 (AZERTAC). At least two people have been killed as Typhoon Conson battered China`s southern island of Hainan. A security guard and a motorcyclist died after being hit by falling giant billboards in two separate incidents, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

The storm added to the worst floods in China for years, which have already killed more than 135 people in July.

Conson later moved toward northern Vietnam, where it is expected to come ashore later on Saturday.

Some 200,000 people in the area have already fled their homes, officials say.

The storm arrived in southern China after hitting the Philippines, where 38 people were killed.

TWO DEAD AS TYPHOON CONSON HITS SOUTHERN CHINA

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