Five dead as late snowstorm hits China
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Northeast China's heaviest March snowstorm in 56 years has left five people dead and caused transport chaos and power failures, state media reported on Monday.
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Chinese insurers have paid more than 1.2 billion yuan, or $165 million, for deaths and damage from snowstorms that killed at least 107 people, said officials quoted Wednesday by a state news agency.
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Eleven electrical workers have died while trying to restore power to Chinese provinces that were plunged into darkness by the country's worst snow storm in 50 years, the state media reported Tuesday.
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BEIJING, China -- At least 90 people were killed and 77 were missing after some of the worst rainstorms in recent years triggered landslides and flash floods in southwest China, disaster relief officials said Monday.
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Torrential rains in eastern and southwestern China have taken at least another 38 lives as a grim rainy season continued, with hundreds killed since the start of the month, state press said Thursday.
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China's death toll from Tropical Storm Bilis rose to 530 on Saturday, more than a week after the storm hit, as officials in southern Guangdong province and the Guangxi region reported an additional 48 deaths, state media said.
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Floods and landslides have killed 55 people in southwest China in the past four days, washing away homes and roads, knocking down power lines and leaving at least one city cut off, state media said on Monday.
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Almost 180,000 people have been stranded in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan by a return of snow and freezing weather which has blocked roads and caused blackouts, state media said on Sunday.
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Troops fanned out across large swathes  of China hit by snow storms that have killed about 50 people as  Premier Wen Jiabao apologized to stranded railway passengers  ahead of the biggest holiday of the year.
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BEIJING - Disasters hit China last night with a plane crash killing about 50 and dozens of miners trapped by an underground fire. A China Eastern plane carrying more than 50 passengers and crew crashed into
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Workers rushed to restore power Tuesday to regions of China hard-hit by snow and ice storms, in a struggle that state media said has already cost the lives of 11 electricians
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Brutal winter weather that has battered China's central, eastern and southern sections prompted the China Meteorological Administration to issue a rare red alert Monday as the nation braced for more snow and bone-chilling temperatures.
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A fire killed at least six coal miners in eastern China, and the bodies of five others were pulled from a flooded shaft in the southwest, state media said on Sunday, latest casualties in the world's deadliest mining sector.
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At least 64 people are now known to have died as a result of torrential rain in south-western China.
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Flooding and landslides set off by heavy rains have killed 55 people and left 52 missing in China&#39;s southwestern province of Sichuan, state media said on Monday.
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Millions of Chinese shivered through power cuts and water shortages on Wednesday and millions more were stranded by snow that has blanketed parts of central and southern China, raising concerns about their safety.
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Fifteen people have been killed in southwest China in a 16-hour thunder storm that caused serious flooding and brought air, road and rail traffic to a halt, state media said on Wednesday.