Typhoon Danas threatens China with flash floods after killing two people in Taiwan - Danas is forecast to bring between 100mm and 250mm of rainfall across a 650km stretch from Fuzhou in Fujian province to Hangzhou in Zhejiang,

Most typhoons come ashore on the island’s sparsely populated east coast, but Danas scraped its crowded western edge. Nearly 300,000 households had no power on Monday.

Typhoon Danas caused severe destruction in Taiwan with extremely strong winds, reaching 135 miles per hour.The storm brought extremely heavy rainfall of over 60 centimeters in some areas which led to serious flooding and landslides.