The death toll climbed to eight after Typhoon Chanchu hit southern China's Guangdong province early Thursday, while more than 900,000 people were evacuated, an official and state media said.
The eight victims, including two children, were killed when their houses collapsed in Guangdong's Shantou city following a landslide caused by torrential rain, an official at the local flood control center told AFP.
A total of 905,000 people have been evacuated, including 327,000 in Guangdong province and 578,000 in neighboring Fujian province where the typhoon was heading, the Xinhua news agency said.
The 6,400 people stranded earlier Thursday by flooding in Shantou were rescued, another official from the Shantou flood control office told AFP.
Chanchu is the strongest typhoon recorded in the South China Sea in May.
