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New Deaths in Rain-Soaked China

   VOA News 23 July 2010
   Rescue  workers  evacuate residents from flooded areas in Jianong town
   in Leshan in southwest China's Sichuan province, 18 July 2010

Photo: AP

   Rescue  workers  evacuate residents from flooded areas in Jianong town
   in Leshan in southwest China's Sichuan province, 18 July 2010

   Typhoon  Chanthu is moving across southern China Friday after striking
   Guangdong  province, killing at least two people. The storm struck the
   provincial  city  of  Leizhou  Thursday, carrying maximum winds of 126
   kilometers an hour. Â
   The threat of Chanthu forced flights in and out of the nearby province
   of  Hainan to be suspended, while authorities ordered more than 20,000
   fishing boats to return to port and seek shelter. Â
   Chanthu is now on a path towards the neighboring province of Guangxi.
   The storm is likely to add further misery for the rain-soaked country,
   where more than 700 people have been killed and 347 others are missing
   due to severe flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains in
   central and southern China.
   The  disaster has caused nearly $21 billion in direct economic losses,
   including the loss of more than 645,000 houses.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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