AlQa'dah 17, 1434, Sep 23, 2013, SPA -- Typhoon Usagi has killed at least 25 people after making landfall in south China's Guangdong Province on Sunday evening, said the provincial government on Monday. The deaths included 13 in Shanwei City, six in Shantou City, three in Jieyang City and one in Guangzhou, Heyuan and Chaozhou each, Xinhua quoted the emergency management office of the Guangdong provincial government as saying. A total of 5.48 million people were affected and 310,000 residents were displaced due to the storm. Some 8,490 houses collapsed and 50,800 hectares of cropland was damaged. The typhoon has resulted in direct economic losses of 7.1 billion yuan ( 1.16 billion U.S. dollars) in Guangdong. Usagi was designated a super typhoon on Saturday after it passed through the Philippines and Taiwan, moving toward China's mainland. Although its power weakened on Sunday, the storm's winds still reached a speed of 45 meters per second at its eye upon landfall in Shanwei at 7:40 p.m. on Sunday. Usagi has devastated the eastern part of Guangdong, with trees blown down and water and electricity supply cut off in several counties in the worst-hit Shanwei.
