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China flooding kills 42
From:
NewsCore June 17, 2010 5:22am
AT least 42 people have died and 36 are missing after torrential downpours in southern China triggered heavy floods, and authorities warned of more rain to come.
More than 100,000 residents were evacuated from their homes due to the floods, which damaged 7000 houses and caused economic losses of 830 million yuan ($US120 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.
The provinces of Fujian and Sichuan, in China's southeast and southwest respectively, as well as the southern region of Guangxi were the hardest hit, it said.
Torrential rains that started battering parts of southern China on Monday were expected to continue for the next three days, the national meteorological centre said.
The centre warned local authorities to prepare for more flooding and disasters such as landslides, Xinhua said.
On Tuesday, 23 people were killed when part of a mountain made loose by heavy rain cascaded onto a construction site in Sichuan, slamming into tents where workers were sleeping.
It was not clear whether they were included in the reported flood death toll.
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