Devastation Reigns as Storms Hit Six Provinces – Xinhua

From Xinhua via Shanghai Daily:

Eighty-eight people have been killed and 23 are missing as a result of heavy rain which began lashing Sichuan and five other provinces on June 28, a senior spokesman with the country’s Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.

Continuous rain and intermittent hail have triggered floods and landslides in southwest Sichuan, central Hubei and Henan, northwest Shaanxi and east Anhui and Jiangsu provinces….[Full Text]

(Photo: Firefighters moving child passengers to safety after a bus was caught in a raging flood yesterday in Guang’an, Sichuan Province, via Shanghai Daily)

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