Lekima wreaks havoc as it moves north

Typhoon Lekima, which made landfall in Zhejiang province on Saturday, leaving 32 people dead and 16 missing, is moving northward, local authorities said on Sunday.

Lekima has affected 6.51 million people, with nearly 1.5 million of them relocated to safer places in Shanghai and the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong and Fujian as of 5 pm on Sunday, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.

The typhoon damaged more than 265,500 hectares of crops and 35,000 houses, it said.