(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) TOKYO, June 17 (KUNA) -- Floods and landslides have caused the deaths of 13 people in China''s southwest and central region, while a hailstorm had killed one person in the northern area, state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Of the total, the southwestern province of Guizhou has reported nine fatalities and nine missing with about 65,600 people evacuated, due to heavy rainfall and landslides this month, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a statement.
The central government has dispatched emergency response teams to supervise relief work in three affected provinces.
"The rescue and relief work in three provinces is going well," the statement said. (end) mk.gta