FUZHOU, China, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- Three people were killed in Fujian province when Typhoon Meranti destroyed their homes, Chinese officials said Saturday.
The storm, which made landfall at about 3:30 a.m. Friday with top winds of about 67 mph, caused widespread damage in Fujian, the official government news agency Xinhua reported. Economic losses were put at almost $120 million.
The storm weakened as it moved across land and was no longer a tropical cyclone Saturday. It reached Zhejiang province at about 7 p.m. Friday, and rain and floods damaged hundreds of graves there.
The Fujian office of flood control said the deaths were all caused by high winds leveling houses. Almost 200,000 people were evacuated and about 1 million affected by Meranti.
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