Search and rescue operations are underway in east China's Fujian Province as Typhoon Doksuri leaves parts of the province severely affected.
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00:00 Search and rescue operations are underway in east China's Fujian province as Typhoon
00:06 Dok Suri has left parts of the coastal province severely affected.
00:12 Affected by Dok Suri, the fifth typhoon of this year, Fujian's capital city of Fuzhou
00:16 has experienced continuous heavy rainfall since Friday.
00:21 Several meteorological observation stations in the city have recorded the highest daily
00:26 precipitation in history, leading to waterlogging in some areas.
00:32 Public transportation, including buses and subways in Fuzhou, was temporarily suspended
00:37 on Saturday morning after the city initiated a Level 1 emergency response for rainstorms
00:43 triggered by Typhoon Dok Suri.
00:45 More than 416,000 people in Fujian have been evacuated to safe places by Friday morning,
00:52 and another 30,000-plus personnel, including those involved in mariculture, had gone ashore.
01:00 Over 800 ships of various types have returned to port.
01:03 A total of 463 tourist sites, 11,624 construction sites, and 202 port terminals had been closed,
01:12 while all 89 passenger ferry routes had been suspended.
01:17 The typhoon also caused power cuts in parts of Fujian and workers are racing against time
01:22 to restore power.
01:25 By 2 p.m. Friday, Dok Suri has affected over 724,600 people and 262.3 hectares of farmland
01:35 in Fujian.
01:38 The direct economic losses amounted to 52.27 million yuan.
01:43 At around 10 p.m. on Friday, the typhoon moved to Lichuan County in neighboring Jiangxi Province,
01:49 where it gradually weakened into a tropical storm.
01:52 It moved out of Jiangxi at around 8 a.m. on Saturday.
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