YANCHENG, China: People scrabbled through the rubble of their homes on Friday after hurricane-force winds and a tornado left at least 98 dead in China, with hundreds more injured.

Whole villages were leveled and huge trees felled when winds of up to 125 kilometers (77 miles) per hour struck around Yancheng city in the eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said.

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