Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have left 19 people dead, 20 missing and thousands trapped in parts of west China, apart from the Zhouqu mudslides that killed more than 1,000, local authorities said Friday.
Heavy rain forecast for the coming days is threatening to swell an unstable lake trapped behind a barrier of mud and debris, endangering aid to local residents. 
Fresh downpours, floods kill 8 in Gansu
Toll climbs to 1,117 What caused mudslide
Mental trauma haunts survivors
The death toll from a massive rain-triggered mudslide in Zhouqu County of northwest China's Gansu Province has risen to 702 as of Tuesday afternoon, with 1,042 others still missing, local civil affairs authorities told a news conference.
Rescue, relief under way Woman saved after 36 hrs
More rains to hit Zhouqu county Sorrow in the air
Wen inspects Zhouqu How you can help Slide
Floods have left 85 people dead and 67 others missing in northeast China's Jilin Province since June, when the flood season began, the provincial flood control authorities and civil affairs department announced.
Rescuers searching for survivors in this mudslide-flattened Northwest China county were spurred on Monday when a 71-year-old woman was pulled alive from the debris and rubble.
Tuesday was our third day in the disaster area. The sadness on people's faces was fading into blank expressions of numbness. While an overwhelming sense of death and sorrow hung in the air, life carried on, as some food stores, banks and even a stationer reopened for business.
Insufficient drinking water and toilets, weak infrastructure and crowded living conditions are increasing the possibility of an outbreak of infectious diseases after a major mudslide in Zhouqu. How to help 702 killed 'I could hear the mud roar'
Engineers and workers battled on Tuesday to drain an unstable lake created by the country's deadliest landslide in six decades
