Typhoon Chan-hom: It has dumped more than 100 millimetres of rain since late Friday — about a month average in less than 24 hours, China Central Television and the Xinhua News Agency reported, according to The Toronto Star. No deaths or injuries have been reported by Saturday evening. Typhoon Chan-hom slammed ashore with winds of up to 160 kilometres per hour in Zhoushan, a city east of the port of Ningbo in Zhejiang province. Some 1.1 million people were evacuated from coastal areas of Zhejiang and more than 46,000 in neighbouring Jiangsu province ahead of the storm, Xinhua said. The national weather service said earlier the typhoon might be the strongest to strike China since the communist government took power in 1949. The provincial flood control bureau said 28,764 ships had been ordered back to port.
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