The death toll from super typhoon Rammasun, the strongest storm to hit southern China in over four decades, has increased to 33 as seven more people were on Monday confirmed dead in a mudslide in southwest Yunnan province.
Rammasun brought gales, downpours and floods to a number of southern provinces, affecting more than 8 million people in the provinces of Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, said a statement released by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Thirteen deaths were reported in south China’s Hainan, nine in southwest China’s Guangxi and now 11 in neighbouring Yunnan, according to tallies based on both central and local Government figures. Deaths from a mudslide in a Yunnan village early on Monday morning rose to ten, with another ten still missing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. The provincial disaster relief bureau and civil affairs department have sent a team to the site.