More than 350,000 Chinese relocated after torrential rains from Trami

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese have been evacuated and more than a dozen dead or missing as a result of heavy rains and flooding, officials said Friday. In Mongolia 19 were reported dead and 116,000 driven from their homes as a result of heavy rains and flooding. One person was reported missing and more than 350,000 people were relocated as Typhoon Trami came ashore in China's Fujian province. The Ministry of Civil Affairs said 1.4 million people in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces have been affected by the storm, which weakened to a tropical depression after making landfall early Thursday with winds as high as 78 mph, Xinhua reported. Eleven counties in Fujian province reported more than 4 inches of rain. Some 20 miles of dams were damaged. About 480 homes were reported destroyed, and nearly 200,000 acres of farmland affected, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said. Direct economic losses are estimated at $163.4 million, the civil affairs ministry said. In Mongolia, 790,000 people were reported affected by the flooding. Xinhua reported 51,000 houses have collapsed or been damaged, with direct economic losses estimated at $359.24 million by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.