Broken-hearted: A woman, who lost her nine-year-old grandson during the tornado, is comforted by another woman in Funing county, Jiangsu province. — EPA
YANCHENG: People scrabbled through the rubble of their homes after hurricane-force winds and a tornado left at least 98 dead in China, with hundreds more injured.
Whole villages were levelled and huge trees felled when winds of up to 125kph struck around Yancheng city in the eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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