Haikui causes over 3 billion yuan economic loss in Anhui
时间：2012-08-13 03:00:41
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Haikui causes over 3 billion yuan economic loss in Anhui HEFEI, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- East China's Anhui Province has recorded an economic loss of 3.28 billion yuan (515.69 million U.S.dollars) since severe tropical storm Haikui entered the province on Wednesday night, local authorities said Saturday.
Haikui has brought about
gales1 and heavy rains to the province,
killing2 three people and affecting more than 3 million during the last three days, according to the
provincial3 civil administration department.
Nearly 200,000 hectares of crops were damaged, and 4,473 houses
collapsed4, the department said.
The disaster relief effort is being carried out by governments of all levels in the province.
Haikui is the third typhoon to wallop China's eastern coast in a week after Saola and Damrey hit the region over the last weekend.
The typhoon made landfall in the
coastal5 province of Zhejiang early on Wednesday, and entered Anhui on Wednesday night after downgrading into a severe tropical storm in the afternoon.
Meteorological authorities in Anhui said that Haikui has been weakened into a tropical depression on Saturday.
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