Death toll from natural disasters rises

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The newspaper La Jornada
Friday, July 26, 2024, p. 26

The typhoon Gaemi The hurricane made landfall in China yesterday, the strongest to hit Taiwan in eight years, leaving at least four dead on the island and 20 in the Philippines. Meanwhile, the effects of the ferocious natural phenomena continue to be felt in different parts of the world: at least 21 people died in Morocco due to a strong heat wave; six deaths were recorded in Bombay, India, as a result of flooding, while torrential rains in Vietnam claimed the lives of eight people and nine are missing. In the image, the enormous waves that hit the shore of Sansha in the Xianpu district, in the province of Fujian, in southeastern China, yesterday.