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Floods, landslides kill 47 across China
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-08-23 07:09
Heavy rain and landslides have killed at least 47 people across
China and storms are snarling transport and flooding reservoirs, reports said
on Monday.
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| Two boys walks in a flooded street in Quanzhou, August 19,
2005. [newsphoto] | The central province
of Hubei was hardest hit, with heavy rain and flooding there claiming 32
lives, China Central Television reported.
In the southern manufacturing hubs of Shenzhen and Dongguan, north of Hong
Kong, eight people died after 30 landslides and house collapses during the
weekend.
Many streets in the busy downtown areas were flooded,
bringing traffic to a standstill as cars and buses were stranded.
At least 10 towns were flooded in Dongguan, where at least one person was
killed.
Weather officials warned the rain was likely to continue in the south through
the early part of the week.
In the northwestern province of Shaanxi, six people were killed during the
past week as heavy rain and mud-rock flows destroyed more than 600 houses and
cut off roads.
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