Beijing, Beijing (AFP) July 14, 2013Eastern China was battered Sunday by strong winds and torrential downpours from Typhoon Soulik which left three people dead and forced half a million people to evacuate their homes. Soulik, which killed two people in Taiwan before barreling towards the mainland, lashed coastal Fujian province with winds of 118 kilometres per hour (73 mph) when it made landfall but had weakened to a tropical Reported by Terra Daily 56 minutes ago.