China has evacuated more than 1.41million people from eastern provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang with no casualty reported after the powerful Typhoon Krosa landed the eastern coastal area on Sunday afternoon, Xinhua reported. In addition, around 75,000 vessels were recalled to harbor to avoid attack of Typhoon Krosa, the 16th this year, which landed at3:30 p.m. on Sunday near the borders of Zhejiang's Cangnan County and Fujian's Fuding City and had weakened to a tropical storm at 5p.m.. Fujian has allocated relief fund of 3.5 million yuan and it has also prepared 22,000 tents, 20,000 quilts, 150 tons of rice and 50,000 boxes of bottle water for people affected, according to the provincial civil affairs department. Krosa was located at Fuding City of Fujian Province at 8 p.m., packing winds of about 100 km per hour at its eye, the Zhejiang Provincial Flood Prevention and Drought Relief Headquarters said. It was moving northward at a speed of 20 km per hour to sweeping through Zhejiang Province before it reaching to the East China Sea, the headquarters said, adding 1.12 million people had been evacuated by 9 p.m. on Sunday. Krosa unleashed gale force winds and torrential rains along the way it running through, making rivers swollen, pulling down houses, cutting off power supplies, halting highway traffic and air services.
