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Friday, July 28, 2000, updated at 10:30(GMT+8)
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Heavy Floods Kill Six in Yunnan Province

Heavy floods have hit Hekou County in southwest China's Yunnan Province since July 21, leaving six people dead, two missing and several hundreds of people injured.

A total of 260 mm of rain fell in Hekou, which borders Viet Nam, between July 21 and 23. The amount of rainfall accounts for 60 percent of county's average annual rainfall.

Flood waters also destroyed 1,496 houses and left 1,840 people homeless. The water in some farmers' houses is as deep as three meters.

Landslides also washed out some parts of the highway in the county.

The direct economic losses are estimated at 122 million yuan. The public security frontier troops have rescued over 60 people who were stranded in mud-rock flows and moved another 700 flood victims to safe areas.

The rescue work is still underway.




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Heavy floods have hit Hekou County in southwest China's Yunnan Province since July 21, leaving six people dead, two missing and several hundreds of people injured.

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