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Floods in South West China Claim at Least 14 Lives

June 7, 2011

Rain-triggered floods have caused 14 deaths and left 35 people missing in a southwest China county, the local government said Tuesday.

As of 8 am, the floods have forced at least 45,000 residents in Wangmo County of Guizhou Province to evacuate, and 3,000 others remained stranded, the county's flood control and drought relief office said in a press release.

 Source:

 Xinhua

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