July 26, 2006
BEIJING, Wednesday, July 26 — Typhoon Kaemi came ashore on the southern China coast Tuesday afternoon, prompting the evacuation of more than 643,000 people in a region still recovering from an earlier storm that caused major flooding and left more than 600 people dead.

State news media reported that the typhoon struck the coast at 3:50 p.m. in Fujian Province before being downgraded to a tropical storm. It was expected to dump rain along the coast and gradually move inland toward Anhui Province. It was the fifth major storm to hit the Chinese coast during this summer's typhoon season.

Early Wednesday morning, heavy rains doused Fujian, as well as Zhejiang and Jiangsu Provinces, but it was too early to determine the extent of any damages.
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