Landslides, Floods in China&#39;s Southwest Kill 79, AFP Reports
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A storm in China&#39;s southwest has left at least 79 people dead and 74 missing after heavy rain caused bridges to collapse and triggered floods and landslides, Agence France-Presse said, citing disaster relief workers.
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Rescuers in southwest China sought help from the military Monday as they searched for dozens of people missing in torrential floods. The death toll rose to 55, state media reported.
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Thirty-six miners were trapped by floods in China's southwestern province of Guizhou, Xinhua news agency said, the latest in a series of accidents in the world's most dangerous mining industry.
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Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains in southern China have killed at least 66 people, left 12 others missing and forced nearly 600,000 from their homes, state media reported Sunday.
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The death toll from flooding and landslides in south-western China rose to 177 yesterday as the authorities warned of fresh storms.
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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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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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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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Recovery operations at a landslide in southwest China which left at least 23 dead and scores missing have resumed as nearby coal mines were shut for investigations into their possible role in the disaster.
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BEIJING -- Floods and landslides triggered by torrential summer rains have killed at least 118 people and left dozens missing in southwestern China, officials and state television reported Tuesday.
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Landslides and flash floods triggered by torrential rains in south-western China have killed 19 people and left at least 21 missing.
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At least 64 people are now known to have died as a result of torrential rain in south-western China. About 70 more are missing in what the Xinhua news agency describes as the most destructive storms of the year in Sichuan province and nearby Chongqing.
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The death toll from flooding and landslides in southern China has risen to at least 71, with more rain forecast for the area, state media reported Tuesday.
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Thirty-six miners were trapped by  floods in China's southwestern province of Guizhou, Xinhua news  agency said, the latest in a series of accidents in the world's  most dangerous mining industry.
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At least 79 people were killed and 74 were missing in some of the worst storms southwest China has seen in many years, disaster relief officials said.
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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 have triggered landslides and flash floods that have killed 19 people and injured 40 in China&#39;s western province of Sichuan, state media said today.