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Deadly floods hit central, southern China: Flash floods kill 11 in Pakistan
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 Beijing (AFP) July 3, 2017


Flash floods kill 11 in Pakistan: officials
Quetta, Pakistan (AFP) July 2, 2017 - At least 11 people were killed and scores more people were injured in flash floods triggered by heavy rains in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, officials said Sunday.

"Heavy rainfall on Friday triggered flash floods which swept away mud houses Lasbela district of Balochistan causing damage to life and property," Hashim Ghilzai, a district administration official told AFP.

"The rain had swept away 14 people and we have recovered 11 dead bodies today while three people are still missing," he said.

Provincial disaster management authorities said twenty house had been damaged by the flash floods.

Abuzar Ghaffari, chief of paramilitary troops in the area, said they were searching for dead bodies with the help of sniffer dogs.

Poorly built homes across Pakistan, particularly in rural areas, are susceptible to collapse during the annual spring and monsoon rains in July-August, which are often heavy.

Severe weather in recent years has killed hundreds and destroyed huge tracts of prime farmland.

The worst flooding in recent times occurred in 2010, when they covered almost a fifth of the country's total landmass, killed nearly 2,000 people and displaced 20 million.

Rainstorms have triggered floods across central and southern China, forcing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and leaving three dozen dead or missing, state media reported Monday.

At least 16 people were killed and a further 10 were unaccounted for in the southern Guangxi region as of Sunday, Xinhua news agency said, citing local authorities.

Thousands of hectares of cropland were inundated while 600 homes collapsed and 6,500 were damaged in the region, causing around $428 million worth of economic losses. More than 90,000 people have been relocated.

In neighbouring Hunan province, a mudslide killed five people and left another four missing on Saturday. Days of heavy rain have raised the water level of the central region's Xiangjiang river, Xinhua reported on Sunday.

More than 300,000 people have been evacuated across Hunan, which has lost 295,000 hectares of crops and seen more than 6,000 homes destroyed.

Last week, authorities said flooding had left 10 people dead in southwest Guizhou province, which also borders Hunan, since June 22.

These more recent floods come after a huge landslide triggered by heavy rain hit Xinmo village in southwest Sichuan province last month, killing at least 10 and leaving 73 missing.

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