Typhoon Longwang stroke Jinjiang in southeast China's Fujian Province on Sunday after the cyclone churned across Taiwan, leaving one dead and dozens injured.

 

 Longwang brought heavy winds and torrents, forcing Xiamen city airport to close earlier Sunday.

 

Some 376,000 people had been evacuated and more than 38,700 boats brought back into harbor, local flood prevention officials told Xinhua.

 

The people were moved from boats and aquiculture farms in Ningde, Fuzhou, Putian, Quanzhou, Xiamen and Zhangzhou as well as from low lands of the coastal region.

    

Typhoon Longwang, the Chinese name for a legendary dragon king which takes care of the world's rain, slammed into Taiwan Sunday morning and left in the afternoon. A 60-year-old man and his wife were hit by an iron bar which smashed into their home in the eastern town of Chian, said local fire agency which is coordinating rescue operations.

 

The man died in hospital soon afterwards and his wife was in critical condition, the agency said.

 

A woman was washed away by flash floods in the central town of Hoping and was feared dead, it said.

 

 

 

(Xinhua News Agency, China Daily, October 3, 2005)