China devastated by typhoon

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Chinese rescue workers evacuated 126 people in the eastern Guangdong city of Shenzhen on Wednesday (July 25), one day after Typhoon Vicente made landfall, slamming southern China with torrential rains and gale force winds, state television CCTV said.

The unrelenting rain in the southern Guangdong city of Zhuhai caused heavy agricultural losses, CCTV reported.

In the neighbouring Guangxi province, 9,940 residents were evacuated, and nearly 170,000 in total were affected by the typhoon, Xinhua News Agency said.

Heavy overnight rains in Guangxi flooded local homes and farmland in the province's city of Qinzhou.

The disaster caused a direct economic loss of 46.6 million yuan ($7.3 million USD) in the province, the report added.

Authorities have warned that heavy rains in Guangxi could continue until Friday (July 27), state media said.

Elsewhere in northern China, the clean-up from torrential rains last week continued.

Around 110 people were killed across the country and another 47 were missing in floods that swept the country on Friday (July 20) the official agency Xinhua reported earlier in the week.