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Typhoon Soudelor, the 13th this year, has left 12 people dead and another 5 missing in Wenzhou City in east China's Zhejiang Province, local government announced.
Heavy downpours have caused mudslides and cave-ins in the city's rural areas, and several houses collapsed on Saturday night.
According to officials with the city's flood control authorities, the dead and missing people may have been washed away by floods or buried under the collapsed houses.
Average precipitation in the city reached 228.4 mm as of Sunday noon.
About 1.36 million people in the city were affected by the typhoon, with a direct economic loss of 3.83 billion yuan (617 million U.S. dollars).
After pounding Taiwan and leaving six people dead, Soudelor landed in the Chinese mainland Saturday night in Fujian Province and moved from there to neighboring Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces.
Anhui and Jiangsu provinces have launched a level-three emergency response for the typhoon and rainstorms, following nearby Jiangxi Province.
More than 10,000 people in Anhui Province have already been evacuated.
Soudelor landed at 10:10 p.m. Saturday in Putian County. So far, a total of 1.04 million people in Fujian have been affected.
The city of Fuding experienced the heaviest downpour of over 501 mm.
In the provincial capital of Fuzhou, much of the downtown area was waterlogged. More than 10,000 trees had fallen and traffic stalled on flooded streets.
A total of 163,200 people were evacuated to shore on Saturday night,according to the provincial flood control and drought relief office.
Power supply for more than three million households was affected and was restored for 1.14 million households as of Sunday morning after urgent repairs, according to State Grid Fujian Electric Power Co., Ltd.
Three airports in the province were closed, with more than 530 flights canceled. Six expressways were closed, and 191 high-speed trains were canceled.
As the typhoon moved to east China, the Fujian flood control and drought relief office downgraded the level-three typhoon emergency response to a level-two response.
Soudelor landed in Taiwan earlier Saturday and left at least six people dead, four missing and 102 injured. Enditem
