Beijing - Eastern China began mopping up on Sunday after Typhoon Matsa ravaged coastal areas, damaging roads, reservoirs and houses although the death toll was restricted to just three after more than a million peole were evacuated.
The typhoon ripped through Zhejiang province on Saturday, causing widespread flooding and disrupting road and air transport, but it has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, the provincial meteorological bureau said.
Packing winds of up to 126km/h, it also lashed nearby Shanghai, China's most modern metropolis, forcing all flights to be cancelled.
One worker at a construction site in Shanghai died and two others were injured when a shed collapsed in the rainstorms, Xinhua news agency said.
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The Zheijiang flood control centre said another two people died and two were missing after a landslide in Yueqing city.
Yuuqing was one of eight cities that were pounded by the typhoon, with more than 13 000 houses either destroyed or damaged, the control centre said on its website. A big clear-up was under way Sunday, it added.
Television images on Saturday showed rescue workers pushing inflatable rafts piled full of bread and other relief supplies through water-clogged streets.
Huge waves came crashing onto shores while gale force winds uprooted trees.
In Shanghai, which was only about 300km north of the eye of the storm, 43 600 residents were evacuated among 1.2 million along coastal areas in the east, reports said.
Matsa pounded Taiwan on Friday, forcing financial markets, offices and schools to close and disrupting water and power supplies to thousands of households. No casualties were reported,
It came just two weeks after Typhoon Haitang left 17 people dead in east China and killed 12 in Taiwan.
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