China's floods `worst in a century'

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Nearly 900,000 people have been evacuated from two regions of southern China where at least 46 have died in flooding that was the worst in a century for some areas, the government said yesterday.
An additional 26 people were missing and some 10,000 stranded by rising floodwaters in the mountainous Guangxi region on China's southern coast and Fujian Province, the National Flood Prevention and Anti-Drought Headquarters announced.

In parts of Guangxi, the flooding was the worst in a century, while the inundation along the Min River in Fujian was the most severe in two decades, a spokesman for the flood agency, Cheng Dianlong, said on the state television midday news.

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1. Stranded China flood victims wait for relief

Dazed Chinese were navigating flooded city and village streets on upturned beds and picking through the rubble of their shattered homes yesterday as the nationwide flood season death toll rose to 563.
Torrential rain in southern China has bloated rivers over their bursting points and triggered mudslides, killing at least 124 people and leaving 69 missing this week alone, state television said.

Worse could come, with Guangdong Province's Pearl River Delta, a crucial engine of China's economic growth and home to 10 million people, bracing for the onslaught of the "highest floods in local history" from the swollen Xijiang river, Xinhua news agency said.
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