Beijing: Landslides triggered by torrential rain in southern China killed at least 12 and injured 24 people, while thousands of residents escaped unhurt after a rain-swollen river flooded their villages, the government said on Friday, as the region braced for more heavy rain.
The landslides occurred on Thursday in Wuzhou, a city in the Guangxi region, during nine hours of heavy downpour.
The rain began around 22:30 (IST) and caused a series of landslides that collapsed 1,195 houses.
Some 14,929 people were evacuated. Officials contacted through the telephone at Wuzhou said on Friday that they were too busy to talk and were "unclear" about details.
In Fujian province, also in the south, the bank of a rain-swollen river collapsed on Thursday morning and flooded 11 villages while thousands of residents were still asleep.
However, no injuries were discovered and water levels were receding. The site of the breech has now been plugged.
An official from the Fujian Provincial Anti-Flood and Drought Headquarters said that he did not have any details or updated figures on Friday morning.
The disasters come amid what the government says is the worst summer flooding in parts of China in three decades.
At least 55 people have been killed and 12 are missing in Fujian and two other provinces since late May from heavy rains that have caused floods and landslides and washed away part of a rail-link between Beijing and Hong Kong.
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