From K J M Varma
Beijing, Jun 16 (PTI) Four persons were killed and more than 77,000 evacuated in China's eastern and central provinces hit by a new round of rainstorms.
Flooding and landslides triggered by an earlier two rounds of rainstorms had left 105 people dead and 63 more missing in the south over the past 10 days.
Fresh floods have killed four persons and another seven are reported missing in rain-triggered landslides in Anhui and Hubei provinces on Tuesday and yesterday, Xinhua news agency reported.
Lightning killed two people and severely injured another one in southwest China's Guizhou Province.
By yesterday afternoon, the rain had forced the evacuation of 70,100 people in Jiangxi and toppled 1,320 houses.
Rescuers in the worst-hit city of Dexing are racing to shift 5,200 people trapped by floods to safe places, a spokesperson of the flood control authority was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency.