(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-07 16:48

GUANGZHOU - Three students went missing and thousands of people were relocated as rainstorms hit south China's Guangdong Province on Friday and Saturday, the provincial flood control headquarters said.

The missing persons included a high school student in Zhuhai who was swept away by floodwater in a canal and two pupils in Maoming by flash flood.

The cities of Yangjiang and Jiangmen, respectively receiving 479 and 474 millimeters of rainfall as of 8 a.m. Saturday, saw their worst rainstorms in the past five decades, said a spokesman of the headquarters.

Six hydrologic stations in the province recorded more than 400 millimeters of rainfall during the period, and 78 stations recorded more than 200 millimeters.

More than 2,000 people were relocated in Zhuhai and Jiangmen, the spokesman said.

The rainstorms also triggered landslides, damaged crops and raised water levels in some reservoirs to dangerously high.