Shanghai thunderstorm kills one, injures 14 in Pudong and Nanhui districts

We were out and about in the rain all of yesterday and had no idea a "mega thunderstorm" was brewing out there in another part of town and people were getting killed in it. According to Xinhua, this was a "once-in-a-century thunderstorm":

A migrant worker was crushed to death and 14 were injured after a thunderstorm hit part of Shanghai on Saturday afternoon, municipal flood authorities said.

The storm hit the eastern Chinese city's Pudong and Nanhui districts from around 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. with precipitation of up to132 mm, the Shanghai Municipal Flood Control Headquarters said.

A strong wind accompanied the storm.

A 47-year-old male migrant worker died after a two-storey workshop building at a steel factory in Heqing Town collapsed. Another person was injured.

Elsewhere, nine persons were injured at two construction sites. Four others were injured when a 100-square-meter market building fell.

The headquarters said all the injured had been sent to hospital for treatment and there was no danger to life.

The "once-in-a century thunderstorm" also flooded some road sections and more than 60 households, it said.

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