Death toll 50 as rain continues in south
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July 11, 2010, Sunday
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FIFTY people have been killed since heavy rains hit the southern part of China early this month, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.
Authorities are still searching for another 15 people reported missing, the ministry said.
Flooding and landslides triggered by downpours since July 1 also forced 597,000 residents to flee their homes in nine provinces, ministry officials reported.
The severe weather has seriously disrupted the lives of nearly 17.2 million people across Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing.
Railway services in southwest China resumed yesterday more than a day after being disrupted by a rain-triggered landslide, local authorities said.
A landslide buried 80 meters of the Sichuan-Guizhou rail line in Dahe Township, Tongzi County in Guizhou Province at 7:15am on Friday.
The service resumed at about 10am yesterday after 1,200 workers cleared 2,000 cubic meters of mud and rocks, Guizhou railway authorities said.
Torrential rains in June resulted in 260 deaths and left 211 missing in 11 southern provinces, the ministry said.
Authorities are still searching for another 15 people reported missing, the ministry said.
Flooding and landslides triggered by downpours since July 1 also forced 597,000 residents to flee their homes in nine provinces, ministry officials reported.
The severe weather has seriously disrupted the lives of nearly 17.2 million people across Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing.
Railway services in southwest China resumed yesterday more than a day after being disrupted by a rain-triggered landslide, local authorities said.
A landslide buried 80 meters of the Sichuan-Guizhou rail line in Dahe Township, Tongzi County in Guizhou Province at 7:15am on Friday.
The service resumed at about 10am yesterday after 1,200 workers cleared 2,000 cubic meters of mud and rocks, Guizhou railway authorities said.
Torrential rains in June resulted in 260 deaths and left 211 missing in 11 southern provinces, the ministry said.
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