(MENAFN- QNA) At least ten people were killed after severe downpours battered southwest China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality, local authorities said.
Heavy rainfall hit Linshui, a county in Sichuan's Guangyuan City, causing disasters in 45 townships, said the county government.
The rain has affected about 2,694 hectares of farmland and thousands of livestock in the region. Search work is under way, according to China's (Xinhua) News Agency.
Continuous heavy rains have battered Sichuan since Sept. 8, leaving about 2.5 million people in nine cities in a state of disaster and forcing 160,000 among them to relocate to avoid risks, said the flood control headquarters of Sichuan.
The rainstorms have collapsed about 8,200 housing units in the province and brought flood peaks to some major rivers.
In the neighboring Chongqing Municipality, landslides triggered by continuous rainfalls have killed at least three people, and at least another 8 people were still missing.
In the worst hit Changshou District of Chongqing Municipality, precipitation reached 200 mm. More than 60,000 people were affected by the rainstorms and 8279 local residents have been evacuated as of 7 p.m. Sunday, according to local authorities.
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