Storm prompts evacuation
By Qiu Quanlin | China Daily | Updated: 2008-08-07 08:48
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People brave the wind and rain brought by tropical storm Kammuri yesterday, as they walk along the waterfront in Hong Kong. Edmond Tang |
GUANGZHOU: At least 388,000 people in Guangdong, Hainan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have been evacuated due to tropical storm Kammuri, the Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said yesterday.
Chen Dianlong, its deputy director, said most of them - 320,000 - were from Guangdong province.
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