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 BEIJING (AP) - Flooding and mudslides have killed more than 500 people across China in the past two weeks, making this one of the country's deadliest summer rainy seasons in a decade, the government said Friday.
Another 137 people were missing after two weeks of torrential rain that forced the evacuation of 1.4 million. Economic losses were estimated at $2.5 billion, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Damage was worst in the south, where the hardest-hit area was a five-province swath that includes Guangdong, China's most populous province and the heart of its booming export industries. At least 97 people had been killed and another 41 were missing in the south, the report said.
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