Chinese authorities evacuated more than 900,000 people ahead of Typhoon Bavi's expected landfall on Sunday, as the country continued to grapple with the deadly aftermath of Typhoon Maysak, which struck Hainan earlier this month. Bavi is forecast to hit the eastern city of Wenzhou after lashing Taiwan and Japan's southwestern islands.
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The evacuations come after days of extreme weather across southern and central China, where storms have already left at least 39 people dead, caused dozens of rivers to overflow and triggered the collapse of a reservoir dam, according to Chinese authorities.
Typhoon Maysak may have weakened after making landfall in China's Hainan province on July 3, but its aftermath is still unfolding. In the southern city of Hengzhou, around 900 snakes, many of them venomous, escaped from a breeding facility on July 6 after floodwaters inundated the area, according to the Shanghai Daily.
Typhoon Bavi is expected to make landfall near the eastern city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province early on Sunday. The Wenzhou city government told news agency AFP that 887,801 people had been evacuated by late Friday, while Chinese authorities said more than 100,000 people had also been moved to safety in northern parts of the country as heavy rain threatened flooding.
