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Fifteen people were killed when a mudslide hit a homestay house in a tourist area in southeastern China as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region, state media said.
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The deaths were the first in China that appear linked to Typhoon Gaemi, which weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall on Thursday.
Before reaching China, the typhoon intensified monsoon rains in the Philippines, leaving at least 34 dead, and swept across the island of Taiwan, where the death toll has risen to 10.
The mudslide struck the homestay house after 8 am and trapped 21 people in Yuelin, a village under the jurisdiction of Hengyang city in Hunan province, state broadcaster CCTV said in a series of online reports.
About 30 centimetres of rain was recorded in the area over a 24-hour period.
Six injured people were rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
The one-storey house offered food and accommodation near Hengshan, a mountain in a scenic area where tourists come on weekends to escape the summer heat, a report by The Paper said. The scenic areas had been closed because of the rains even before the mudslide.
The CCTV reports said the mudslide was triggered by water rushing down the mountains from the rains.
Elsewhere in China, a delivery person on a scooter died after being hit by a falling tree in Shanghai, apparently because of storm-related winds, according to The Paper, a digital news outlet.
The wide arc of the tropical storm also brought heavy rain about 2,000 kilometres away to China's northeast.
The Linjiang city government in Jilin province posted a notice on social media asking residents living below the third floor to move to higher places on Sunday as the Yalu River, which forms the border with North Korea, rose above the warning level.
In neighboring Liaoning province, hundreds of chemical and mining companies suspended operations as a precautionary measure and more than 30,000 people had been evacuated, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Two more people were reported dead in Taiwan, raising the death toll to 10, the island's Central News Agency said. Two others were missing, and 895 people were injured.
More than 800 people remained in shelters in Taiwan as of Saturday night, and more than 5,000 households were without power.
The typhoon caused nearly 1.8 billion New Taiwan dollars ($A83.7 million) in damage to crops and livestock.
A cargo ship sank off Taiwan's shore during the typhoon, killing the captain, while eight other ships ran aground.
Australian Associated Press