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Saturday 18 September 1999 00:02 BST
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TYPHOON YORK killed eight people and caused losses of more than 200m yuan (pounds 15m) as it tore across China's southern Guangdong province, officials said yesterday. Six of the victims were said to have died when York flipped a double-decker bus over.

York's trail of destruction on the Chinese mainland follows its hammering of Hong Kong on Thursday where winds of up to 87mph left one dead, one missing and 493 injured.

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