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Guizhou

3 missing in severe floods

Three people remain missing after rain-triggered floods in Guizhou province, local authorities said on Friday. From Thursday to Friday morning, heavy rain battered more than 100 townships in Guizhou, according to the provincial meteorological bureau. Early Friday, villages in Jiuchao township, Liping county, were inundated and residents were trapped in their homes. Liu Shanping, the Communist Party of China chief of Jiuchao Village was swept away with two other people when he attempted to rescue them.