Floods, landslides kill 47 across China
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-08-23 07:09

Zhu Xinqian, a 47-year-old farmer from the Shaanxi village of Banchang, lost his wife and son in a landslide.

"I went to my farmland on the mountain that night to drive away wild boars that might destroy my crops," Zhu said.

"The landslide hit my house just at the same time as I arrived back home."

Summer flooding is common throughout China, but its damage is compounded by deforestation as rains trigger rock slides and mud flows off bare mountainsides.

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