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Typhoon Conson Makes Landfall in China

   VOA News 16 July 2010
   Philippine Coast Guard try to contain oil spill from sunken vessels in
   Bataan  province  in the Philippines after Typhoon Conson hit the main
   island

Photo: AP

   Philippine Coast Guard try to contain oil spill from sunken vessels in
   Bataan  province  in  the Philippines after Typhoon Conson smashed the
   main island, 15 July 2010

   Typhoon  Conson  has  come  ashore  with  high winds and heavy rain in
   China's  Hainan  province,  days  after  blazing  a trail of death and
   destruction across the Philippines.
   Officials  said  the  storm  struck during early evening Friday in the
   city  of  Sanya,  with winds in excess of 120 kilometers per hour. The
   official  Xinhua news agency said Conson overturned 10 fishing vessels
   in  the  South  China  Sea  near  the  Paracel Islands before reaching
   Hainan.
   Officials  warned  that  heavy rains from the typhoon would worsen the
   misery  in several Chinese provinces where severe flooding has already
   killed 135 people and destroyed more than 100,000 homes.
   The  storm  is  forecast  to  move  next across the Gulf of Tonkin and
   strike Vietnam late Saturday southwest of Hanoi.
   The  storm lashed the Philippines earlier this week, leaving 38 people
   dead  and  47  still missing. Electricity has been restored to much of
   the  capital,  Manila,  and  operations  at  the  city's international
   airport have returned to normal.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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