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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Death toll from floods in China reaches 132 AFP - 1 hour 27 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Death toll from floods in China reaches 132 BEIJING (AFP) - – The death toll from torrential downpours battering China for the past week has reached 132, state media reported Sunday, as more heavy rain was forecast. Floods and landslides triggered by the summer deluge have left a further 86 people missing while more than 800,000 have been evacuated, state-run television said. Earlier media reports said more than 1.4 million people living on river banks and in low-lying areas had been forced to flee their homes. More heavy rain was expected as the cost of the disaster, which has hit great swathes of China's south, reached 14.5 billion yuan (2.1 billion dollars), state television said. A total of 68,000 houses have collapsed and more than 500,000 hectares (1.2 million acres) of crops have been affected, it said. Authorities have raised the level of their emergency response as rescue and flood-prevention work continues, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said. State television broadcast images of submerged crops in the eastern province of Jiangxi while other images showed soldiers leading clean-up efforts in parts of Fujian province. Images showed overturned cars and people sweeping water and mud out of their shops in Fujian after floodwaters had receded. Photos on China News Service showed people wading through waist-high water as they tried to cross a flooded bridge in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Others showed people being rescued by helicopter from flood-ravaged Guangxi in the south while others and farmers in Fujian province trying to salvage crops damaged in the deluge. The official Xinhua news agency also reported that in Fujian province alone, 12 people had died in a landslide while seven had been rescued. The torrential and virtually unrelenting rain has also disrupted train services to the affected regions, with 18 services from Shanghai suspended Saturday, leaving 20,000 passengers stranded, state media said. Eight train services remained suspended on Sunday. Another service from Beijing to Fuzhou in Fujian province was stopped from leaving the capital on Saturday due to the floods. The National Meteorological Centre warned on Sunday of more rainstorms to come, two days after it issued an orange storm alert -- just one level lower than the nation's most serious red alert. "The scope and intensity of the rain have increased," it said in a statement on its website. "In parts of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Guangxi and other areas of the south, the rainfall will be 100-180 millimetres. In other parts, the rainfall will be more than 200 millimetres." The weather bureau said previously that some of the rainfall in the south was up to three times greater than normal years. Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Parents shot in front of daughter in Thai attacks AFP - 1 hour 24 minutes ago Death toll from floods in China reaches 132 AFP - 1 hour 27 minutes ago S.Korea to boost role in anti-arms trafficking club AFP - 2 hours 1 minute ago Malaysia's rescued baby pygmy elephant dies AFP - 2 hours 8 minutes ago Bangladesh closes university after World Cup riots AFP - 2 hours 31 minutes ago News Search Top Stories Britain facing biggest budget cuts in decades Whales closer to us than thought, say scientists Murray confident Wimbledon within his grasp Red carnations for Nobel laureate as Portugal mourns Danes send Cameroon packing, Dutch into W.Cup last 16 More Top Stories » ADVERTISEMENT Most Popular Most Viewed Most Recommended Aussie man jailed for blowing bubble in court Sweden's future queen to wed former personal trainer Battered BP boss relinquishes duties on US oil spill Whales closer to us than thought, say scientists EU chief Barroso says euro is strong More Most Viewed » Physicists solve mystery of missing neutrinos More Most Recommended » Elsewhere on Yahoo! Financial news on Yahoo! Finance Stars and latest movies Best travel destinations More on Yahoo! News Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Subscribe to our news feeds Top StoriesMy Yahoo!RSS » More news feeds | What are news feeds? Also on Yahoo Answers Groups Mail Messenger Mobile Travel Finance Movies Sports Games » All Yahoo! Services Site Highlights Singapore Full Coverage Most Popular Asia Entertainment Photos World Cup 2010 Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Terms of Service | Privacy Policy | Community | Intellectual Property Rights Policy | Help

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