At least 10 killed and three missing in central flooding


Nature’s wrath: Floodwaters sweeping through the ancient town of Feng Huang in Hunan province. — AP

BEIJING: At least 10 people had been killed and three were missing in flooding in the central Chinese province of Hunan, while a landslide buried parts of a village in the southern Guangxi region, state media reported.

Storms have pummelled Hunan since the beginning of the month, with some monitoring stations reporting historic levels of rainfall, the Xinhua News Agency said late on Wednesday.

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