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Flooding and landslides across nine southern Chinese provinces have killed more than 50 people and left 14 missing, officials say. Guangdong was hardest hit, reporting 36 deaths after days of heavy rain, said the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Six people had died in Jiangxi, added the ministry. And further bad weather is forecast for Guangdong later on Saturday, with warnings of heavy wind and rain causing more flooding in the next few days. Teams of relief workers have been sent to oversee the recovery efforts in the hardest hit areas, officials said. Heavy rainstorms in Guangdong reportedly caused widespread flooding in the province's mountainous areas and affected nine cities including the provincial capital, Guangzhou. Nearly 900,000 people had been affected across the state, with floods destroying 2,675 houses, China's Xinhua News Agency reported.
URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-22579102
Summary: The big floods were hit Guangdong, province on the southern China. Flooding and landslides killed more than 50 people and 14 people are missed. Weather-caster forecast the warnings of heavy wind and rain could be cause of flooding. Heavy rainstorms in Guangdong were cause of more flooding and cause of widespread flooding in mountain areas and nine cities. China’s News Agency reported that nearly nine hundred thousand people had affected by this flooding and floods destroying 2,675 houses.
Vocabulary
Affair: events, happening.
Ministry: a kind of government department or administration.
Agency: office that do something instead of someone.
Forecast: Casting the news or weather in mostly TV to give a information to many people.
Widespread: Spread widely.
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