Typhoon Nepartak causes evacuation of half a million people in China

More than 422,000 people have been evacuated from Fujian province in south China as typhoon Nepartak, which battered Taiwan, lashed China’s east coast, toppling houses and damaging roads. China has already had to contend with some of the worst flooding the country has experienced in years, which has left 164 people dead in 11 provinces, according to the Civil Affairs Ministry, as cited by AP.