'Once a Century' Floods Kill 161 in China
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China's Sichuan province faced the  threat of epidemics on Wednesday after the worst flooding in a  century killed at least 161 people and injured thousands and  water levels at the huge Three Gorges Dam were due to peak.
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Floods and typhoons in China this year have killed at least 800 people and caused billions of dollars in economic losses, state media and government officials said Wednesday.
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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.
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Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 26 people and left 17 missing in southwest China's Sichuan province in the last week, state media reported Sunday.
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The worst typhoon to hit China in seven  years killed at least 164 people and another 24 were listed as  missing, Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
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SHANGHAI, China - A southern Chinese province was rushing to shore up dams eroded by weeks of heavy rains and high waters that already have killed at least 76 people, state media reported Wednesday.
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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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A massive floodcrest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River on Thursday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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A strong storm surge in northeast China killed at least three people and did millions of dollars in damage to crops, the government said Friday.  The surge was the strongest in the area since 1969, Xinhua, the official government news agency, reported.
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The most powerful typhoon to hit China in five decades raged across its southeastern coast Thursday, claiming at least 111 lives as it capsized ships, destroyed buildings and forced 1.5 million people from their homes.
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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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Tropical Storm Prapiroon caused at least nine deaths in southern China, authorities said Friday as heavy rain continued to fall on a region being battered by a deadly flood season.
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Floods in China killed more than 1,000  people this year, destroyed 650,000 village homes and caused  64.7 billion yuan ($7.82 billion) in direct economic losses,  the official Xinhua News agency said.
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HONG KONG, Sept. 8, 2004âSouthwest China braces for more floods after deadly storms killed scores of people and forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate.
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BEIJING -- At least 143 people in southwestern China have been killed and dozens more are missing in massive floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains, officials and state television reported yesterday.
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China issued emergency flood warnings for central and eastern parts of the nation Tuesday, after torrential downpours led to the deaths of at least 127 in the past eight days.
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Days of torrential rains in southwest China unleashed floods and landslides that killed at least 19 people, the government said Sunday.