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Footage on social media showed tornadoes ripping through eastern states.
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A tornado struck a town in eastern China, killing five people and injuring nearly 100, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
Dramatic videos posted to social media showed the tornado ripping roofs off homes, uprooting trees and sending debris flying into the air.
“Severe convective weather triggered the tornado,” the Dongming county emergency management bureau said, adding that the local government had set up a command centre and launched emergency response operations.
According to Xinhua, a tornado damaged 2,820 homes in Caiyuan city, Shandong province.
The fire department added that emergency services were currently “disposing of post-disaster waste and cleaning up the scene”.
Tornadoes don’t happen as often in China as they do in the U.S., but they don’t happen at all: China averages fewer than 100 tornadoes a year, and at least 1,772 people have been killed by them in the 50 years since 1961, researchers say.
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The tornado killed at least five people and damaged thousands of homes.
A tornado struck the southern city of Guangzhou in April, killing at least five people and injuring 33, according to Chinese state media.
Earlier this month, the China Meteorological Administration released its annual “Blue Book” report on the current state of climate change in the country, which said China experienced its warmest year since 1901 and that “extreme weather and climate phenomena tend to become more frequent and severe.”
Other parts of the country have also been hit by extreme weather, with severe drought and record high temperatures ravaging the north and heavy rains causing floods in the south.
