A resident sleeps with belongings that he fetched from his collapsed house after a storm hit Daoxian county, Hunan province, around 3 am on Wednesday. PHOTO BY GUO GUOQUAN / FOR CHINA DAILY. Houses collapse, telegraph poles fall, 110,000 residents affected by damage.
Three people have died and more than 50 have been injured by a storm that swept a county in Hunan province before dawn on Wednesday. The storm hit Daoxian county of Hunan's Yongzhou city around 3 am, said Zhou Jingzhong, head of the county government's publicity office. One person died when a house collapsed, and the two others died of their injuries in hospital.