A man tries to climb to a floodgate to
unlock the valve to sluice in Zijin County of south China's Guangdong
Province, June 9, 2007. (Xinhua
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BEIJING,
June 10 (Xinhua) -- Torrential rains that plagued southern China for days have
killed 66 people and resulted in 12 missing by 6 p.m. (Beijing time) on
Sunday, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
"Floods caused by heavy rains have affected about
294,800 hectares of crops, completely destroying 53,000 hectares of them," said
an official with the ministry,
The floods have torn down 48,000 houses and damaged 94,000
houses in southern China, and forced about 591,000 people to evacuate from their
homes, the official said.
From Wednesday to Saturday, continuous torrential
rains, mudslides and floods hit Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi and
Fujian, affecting more than 8.97 million people.
The disasters have caused an overall economic loss of
more than 2.9 billion yuan (371 million U.S. dollars), according to the
ministry.
The ministry has sent rescue teams to the disaster
areas to assist relief work.
In Guangdong, heavy rains have killed 18 people and
left four missing by 3 p.m. on Sunday, according to local authorities.
A total of 1.72 million people were affected in the
province, which has evacuated 72,400 people from their homes.
Floods have damaged 49 roads in the seriously
affected Meizhou City, of which 29 remained closed to traffic by 7 p.m.
The death toll in torrential floods in south China's
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has reached 13 and one remained missing by
Sunday, according to local civil affairs authority.
More than 1.97 million people have been affected
after the floods triggered by continuous heavy rains hit some 40 counties since
Wednesday.
According to the local civil affairs bureau, 9,200
houses were knocked down and 75,181 hectares of crops were affected,
incurring 529 million yuan (about 70 million dollars) in direct economic
losses.
The rainstorms have subsided and the rainbelt is
moving out of Guangxi, but the water levels in major rivers will keep rising in
next few days, according to the latest forecast of the region's meteorological
bureau on Sunday afternoon.
NANNING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Death toll in torrential
floods in southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has reached 13 and
one remained missing by Sunday, according to local civil affairs authority.
More than 1.97 million people have been affected
after the floods triggered by continuous heavy rains hit some 40 counties since
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