Chinese state media shows warehouse hit by tornado
STORY: The tornado had hit the city's Baiyun district on Saturday (April 27) afternoon and killed five people, state news agency Xinhua said, citing local authorities, adding that 33 were injured and 141 factory buildings had been damaged.
Footage on CCTV on Monday showed the scattered remains of the warehouse, with rescuers picking through debris near telephone poles that had fallen on the ground nearby.
Last year, China's Jiangsu was hit by a violent tornado which killed 10 people after torrential rain lashed China's southeast, causing massive evacuations and landslides in the wake of unrelenting storms brought on by the remnants of Typhoon Haikui.
