Five dead and 13,000 evacuated in latest flooding in southern China rainstorms


This aerial photo shows submerged fields and inundated buildings after heavy rain caused flooding in Rongan in China's southern Guangxi region. Floods and mudslides in south China have uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and left dozens dead or missing, state media reported. - AFP

BEIJING (AP): Rainstorms have killed five more people in a southern Chinese region already reeling from heavy flooding over the past week.

The government of Zunyi city, south of the metropolis of Chongqing, said Saturday that five had died and eight others were missing after fresh storms that began late Thursday night.

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