A car is buried in messes at Bandong Township after flooding in Minqing County, southeast China's Fujian Province, July 11, 2016. [Photo: Xinhua]

Typhoon Nepartak has left 83 people dead and 19 missing in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian Province as of Sunday noon, provincial authorities said.

The worst-hit Minqing County in Fuzhou has reported 73 deaths, with another 17 still missing.

Typhoon Nepartak, the first to hit this year, made landfall in Fujian Province on July 9.