Typhoon Bavi batters eastern China; over 2.8 million evacuated

A woman walks past a vehicle knocked over by winds from Typhoon Bavi. PIC/AFP

Typhoon Bavi, the most powerful storm to strike mainland China this year, brought heavy rain to the eastern coast on Sunday and lashed densely populated cities with violent winds.

Bavi had weakened by Sunday morning to a tropical storm as it pushed inland, but forecasters warned that the France-sized storm system could unleash prolonged rain across eastern and northern China in the coming days.

Over 2.8 million people have been evacuated. Of those, more than 2.2 million were in Zhejiang. So far, there have been no official reports of deaths or injuries.

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