“At least 155 people have died in seasonal flooding in China that has also forced more than one million to flee, government officials say.
“Large stretches of the country’s southeast have been hit especially hard, the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on Saturday.
“About 140,000 homes have collapsed, many of them in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, and more than 1.3 million people have been moved to temporary shelter.
“Virtually all of the country’s major rivers are swollen, while water levels in lakes along the Yangtze river are higher than in 1998, when flooding killed about 4,000 people.”
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