00:00Cleanup efforts have begun after Typhoon Gaiemi
00:04pummeled southern China on Friday.
00:07Many residents and business operators cleared the aftermath
00:10as the storm was now moving towards the southeast and northwestward.
00:15The state grid had also begun repairing damaged facilities
00:19to ensure electricity supply returned to normalcy.
00:23The storm caused massive flooding in many cities,
00:26with over 90,000 residents being evacuated from their homes
00:30and premises in Guangdong province.
00:32Authorities warned that as many as 10 provinces,
00:35including Henan province, could be affected by the typhoon.
00:39In Taiwan, the typhoon was the third experienced
00:41by the residents living in Yilan County.
00:44After the typhoon made a landfall in Taiwan on Thursday night,
00:47many trees were uprooted and roads and power were cut off.
00:52Authorities said the typhoon had claimed at least seven lives.
00:56Taiwan's Coast Guard rescued crew members from two stranded freighters
01:00as they continued their search for another Tanzania-flagged cargo ship
01:04that sank off the southern coast.
01:06Taiwan's Ocean Affairs Council said the number of freighters stranded
01:10was unprecedented for a typhoon.
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