Typhoon leaves three people missing in China

A typhoon that ripped through southern China damaging thousands of homes and demolished sugarcane and banana plantations has caused more than $446m of damage.

Typhoon Durian has left three people missing after slamming into Guangdong province on Sunday, the China Daily reported.

Hardest hit was the city of Zhanjiang, where the typhoon damaged 12,700 homes as it dumped 12 inches of rain.

Winds of up to 104 mph "completely wiped out" sugarcane fields and banana trees and killed more than 52,000 livestock in Zhanjiang.

Seventy percent of the city's homes lost power and water, though services had been restored to more than half of those by Tuesday afternoon.

Final exams at a Zhanjiang middle school were postponed because of the typhoon, reports said.

Eleven people were injured when a fruit market collapsed in Yangjiang, said Chen Baodeng, a city official.

The typhoon damaged 110 homes there.

On the southern island province of Hainan, more than 2,000 passengers were stranded at the airport in the provincial capital, Haikou, reports said.

Durian is the second typhoon to hit southeastern China in 10 days. Typhoon Chebi killed almost 100 people after striking Fujian province June 23.