Southern China battered by flooding

Published: July 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM
Provincial capital of Nanning, Guangxi

BEIJING, July 5 (UPI) -- Flooding from dangerously high rivers in southern China has killed at least 15 people and displaced more than 400,000, authorities said Sunday.

While a week of storms in China and Vietnam began to subside Sunday, the possibility of more flooding remained in Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency reported.

Flooding from the storms destroyed thousands of homes, cut power, damaged major roads and eroded hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable crop land, Xinhua said.

In Guangxi's Rongshui county, an estimated 300 students were trapped above flood waters in a boarding school, with local authorities managing to get food and safe drinking water to them.

About 7,000 people in Guangxi's Luocheng county were moved to safety as a section of the Kama reservoir weakened under the rising water level, Xinhua reported.

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