From Reuters:
Thirty-seven people died in a 16-hour thunder storm in southwest China that caused heavy flooding and brought air, road and rail traffic to a halt, the government and state media said on Wednesday.
Chongqing municipality received 266.6 mm (10-¬Ω inches) of rain between Monday night and Tuesday afternoon, the largest volume since records began in 1892, Xinhua news agency said, quoting the local meteorological bureau. Thirty-two of the deaths were in Chongqing and five were in the neighboring province of ‘Sichuan , Xinhua said. Both places have already suffered badly from storms and floods this year and were hit by the worst drought in more than a century last summer. [Full Text]
