BEIJING — An unusually fierce tornado ravaged an eastern Chinese city on Thursday, killing at least 98 people and injuring 800 others, catapulting cars, ginkgo trees and cellphone towers through the air, and reducing homes to piles of debris, the authorities said.
The storm in Yancheng, a city of 7.1 million overlooking the Yellow Sea, featured wind gusts exceeding 80 miles an hour by some accounts.
“The skies turned dark and we thought the summer torrential rain was about to begin,” said a resident of Yancheng, according to a live-blog published by Sina, a web portal. “We ran to our house. Suddenly, the roof was blown apart, bricks were falling and the house collapsed.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/world/asia/tornado-yancheng-china.html
