1.69 million people affected by Haima

GuaNGZHou: Disasters brought by Typhoon Haima have affected around 1.69 million people in south China’s Guangdong province, said the provincial civil affairs department.

Typhoon Haima barrelled into Guangdong on Friday, triggering sudden downpours in several cities.

There have been no reports of casualties so far following the timely evacuation of 668,000 people to safer areas.

The department received reports of damage to 2,749 houses and some 178,000ha of crops.

It also estimated economic losses at 3.5 billion yuan (RM2bil).

The typhoon caused power outages to a total of 2.12 million households.

By Saturday, 95.5% of them had regained power supply, thanks to emergency repairs by the provincial power grid company. — Xinhua