Heavy Rains In China Leave At Least 62 Dead Or Missing

From AFP:

Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 62 people dead or missing, while more than one million residents have been evacuated, the government and state media said Sunday.

Rains were expected to further pound southern China in the coming days, with rising river levels threatening towns in Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces, the state meteorological bureau said.

According to the civil affairs ministry, at least 55 people have been killed and seven others were missing following torrential rains in nine provinces over the past week, the China News Service said.

More than 1.27 million people have been evacuated in the hardest-hit regions, with large swathes of farmland submerged and economic losses already totalling more than 10 billion yuan (1.45 billion dollars), it said.

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