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Typhoon Noul: Shenzhen girl, 6, blown away by gale, runs back to safety

As Typhoon Noul barrelled into southern China on Sunday with winds reaching 160km/h (99mph), violent gusts ripped a cot from indoors and flipped it over several metres away, sending the child inside flying to the ground. Hongxing News, a Chinese media outlet, reported that a six-year-old girl lying in her cot in the southern city of Shenzhen was blown from inside a building onto the grass verge outside. Footage released by Hongxing showed a ground-floor grocery shop being battered by the gale,...

Watch: Moment rare tornado lashes central Chinese cities

Videos shared with the BBC show debris flying through the air as the storm swept through Ezhou and Huanggang in Hubei province.