Typhoon Sepat in China,Philippines....29 deaths,7000+ homes destroyed, $17,860,000+ economic loss.

The storms have destroyed about 1400 square kilometres of farmland, while more than 7,600 houses been destroyed and 28,000 others were damaged, it added. Sepat caused a series of landslides and floods in Fujian which killed eight people. While in Zhejiang, a tornado which spun off Sepat caused at least 12 deaths as it spun through the city of Wenzhou smashing 156 homes.
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Last week, the typhoon killed at least one person in Taiwan, and left three dead in the Philippines.

Twenty-nine people have died and 14 others are missing since Typhoon Sepat left a trail of destruction in east China's Fujian, Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces, local flood control headquarters reported on Monday. The latest casualty is from Yongfeng County in east China's Jiangxi Province, where Sepat swept into at 2:30 a.m. Monday.

Over 200 cities and counties across Jiangxi are suffering torrential rain and high winds. By 8:00 p.m., the worst-hit county of Yongfeng had received 399 mm of rain and reported the death of a local farmer from a landslide. The typhoon has affected 150,000 people, destroyed 1,016 houses and caused an economic loss of 134 million yuan (about 17.86 million U.S. dollars) in the province.

The local meteorological bureau predicts Sepat will linger in the province for another 48 hours. Sepat landed in Fujian at 2:00 a.m. Sunday, leaving a trail of chaos in which landslides had killed 15 people and left 11 missing in Fujian by 6 p.m. Monday. The ninth typhoon of the year has brought an average 200 mm of rainfall to most counties since last Friday. The worst-hit county of Jiaocheng received 490 mm.

Sepat has also caused 13 deaths and three missing in Wenzhou, a manufacturing center in Zhejiang, including 11 deaths from a tornado that smashed 156 houses on Saturday night. On Sunday, a landslide triggered by the downpours hit a minibus in Wenzhou, killing one of its 19 passengers. One woman was found dead in the debris of her house the same day.