Downpours, hailstorms and a tornado battered parts of Yancheng City at 2:30 pm Thursday. (Photo:China News Service/Gu Hua)
Another villager, surnamed Li, who crawled out of her collapsed house told China News Service she had been outside when the sky suddenly darkened.
She was scared and found a place to hide, where she heard roaring winds and heavy rain outside that flattened her home.
