Weeks of floods in south China kill 379

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Weeks of floods in south China kill 379

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  Local residents navigate a boat in a flooded area in Changkai town of Fuzhou, Jiangxi province, at the weekend. Floods in China have killed 379 people this year and left 141 missing, the flood control authority said. Photograph: Reuters/China Daily
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  WATER LEVELS are receding in southern China after weeks of floods that have claimed 379 lives, but emergency workers are still trying to repair water defences because some rivers and lakes remain dangerous.
  In one case, workers yesterday finished repairing a breach in the Changkai dyke near Fuzhou, in Fujian province, that had forced the evacuation of 100,000 people, the Xinhua news agency reported.
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  Flooding along the Yangtze river and other major waterways is an annual event, but this year the rains have brought havoc to the southern provinces, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi. Some parts of Guangdong are seeing the worst rainfall in 500 years.
  Some 68.7 million people in 22 provincial-level regions have been affected, three million people have been evacuated, while 4.36 million hectares of farmland has suffered from the deluge, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.
  The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said river levels were going down in Jiangxi and Hunan, but levels in the Ganjiang River and Poyang Lake were higher than normal and remained dangerous, while Hunan's Dongting Lake was also still rising.
  Persistent heavy rains this year have left 379 people dead, 141 missing and resulted in economic losses estimated at 82.4 billion yuan (€9.8 billion), the headquarters said.

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