The civil affairs bureau estimated that disasters triggered by tropical storm Kammuri from August 7 affected about 1 million people in Yunnan and forced 11,200 people to evacuate from their homes.

Kammuri, the third tropical storm to hit China this year, landed in the southern province of Guangdong on August 6, and swept across the Tonkin Gulf to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region before moving west to Yunnan.

About 2,700 homes in Yunnan were destroyed and 13,000 others were damaged and crop damages were estimated at US$80 million, the bureau said.

In one of the worst-hit areas, Maguan county in Yunnan's Wenshan Zhuang and Miao prefecture, nine people dead, two missing and five injured after they were swept up in a 300-metre landslide on August 9, Xinhua reported.