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| Sunday, 11 August 2002 |
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Southern China floods, landslides kill 70 BEIJING, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Torrential rains triggered landslides and floods that have killed 70 people in China's southern province of Hunan, the China Daily newspaper said on Saturday. The floods were concentrated in the province's rice-growing southern region, some 400-600 km (250-370 miles) north of Hong Kong, and were the worst since 1998, the newspaper quoted a provincial official as saying. Floods across the country that year killed more than 4,000 people and were China's most devastating in decades. So far this year, around 900 people have been killed in seasonal floods. Traffic along China's main north-south train artery ground to a halt when one section of the track in the city of Chenzhou collapsed and another was submerged, it said. Southbound trains to the southern city of Guangzhou were held up for two to three hours, and six trains headed north from Guangzhou were suspended, the newspaper said. Flooding affected some 45 percent of Chenzhou, it said. Most people surrounded by floodwaters had been moved to shelters on higher ground, the government official said. Police had transferred some 2,600 people from their homes in rural areas of nearby Anren County where 3,200 people were stranded by the flooding, it said. A picture on the front page of the China Daily showed police in life vests, up to their knees in muddy water, carrying a woman and a child down a flooded road. Major rivers in the province had not flooded, it said. |
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