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5 killed by floods in Yunnan

China Daily | Updated: 2008-07-04 07:37

Since Monday, heavy rains in Yunnan province have killed five people and affected more than 60,000 others, local authorities said yesterday.

The provincial civil affairs department said that as of 4 pm yesterday, more than 2,100 houses had collapsed, 14,200 others had been damaged, and about 2,500 people had been evacuated.

Kunming, the provincial capital, on Tuesday recorded its third-highest rainfall since records began in 1951. Up to a meter of water fell in the city center during a six-hour storm that inundated major roads and buildings, the department said.

5 killed by floods in Yunnan

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