Typhoon Gaemi’s Hunan toll rises to 30 dead, with 35 missing

Thirty people have been killed and another 35 have gone missing since Typhoon Gaemi made landfall and hit Hunan province, state media reported on Thursday.

The casualties occurred in Zixing city, where 118,000 residents were affected by heavy flooding, mudflows and landslides triggered by the typhoon.

Typhoon Gaemi, which wreaked havoc when it travelled across the Philippines and Taiwan last week, first hit China’s Fujian and Jiangxi provinces last weekend before it moved inland to strike Hunan province, where more than 1.2 million people have been affected.