50 people dead in China after heavy rain
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Flooding, landslides and torrents of mud have killed 50 people in southern China and another 15 are missing after days of torrential rain, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said late on Saturday. More than 17 million people spread across nine provinces have been affected by downpours since the start of July, the ministry said in a statement on its website.
Some 42,000 homes collapsed, and another 121,000 were damaged and hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops were spoilt or destroyed, with an early estimation of the cost of the rains as high as 8.9 billion yuan ($1.3 billion). (Reuters)
