first tornado ever practically destroys Chinese city - 29? dead 190? injured

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/05/201056135363968.html


At least 29 people have been killed after heavy rain, hail, and a tornado hit China's southwestern city of Chongqing, damaging thousands of homes and destroying crops.

More than 190 people were injured and at least one person was missing, with rescue work under way in the districts of Liangping and Dianjiang on Thursday, state news agency Xinhua reported.

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Local papers reported that at least 1,000 homes were destroyed and 10,000 damaged.

"Tornadoes never happened here in the past - this is the first time," Liu Fang, a local township official in Liangping county, one of the hardest-hit areas, told the AFP news agency.

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Up to 157 millimetres of rain had fallen in parts of the region - stricken by a severe drought since last year - from late Wednesday to Thursday afternoon, Xinhua said.

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Chongqing, a province-sized municipality, has a population of more than 30 million people.
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all the world's weather is now climate change weather.

which means to expect the unexpected.