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Storms are expected to batter large swathes of China again on Monday after floods, landslides and lightning killed more than 150 people last week alone, state media said. Storms are likely to hit the already swollen Yangtze and Huai river valleys, bringing strong wind or hail. "Meteorologists warned people in southwestern Chongqing, central Hubei and Henan and eastern Shandong to be on the alert for floods and landslides in the coming three days," the China Daily said. The provinces of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanxi and the Guangxi autonomous region would suffer heavy rainfall, meteorologists said. In normally dry Shanxi in the country's north, 11 coal miners were trapped underground after mountain torrents flooded their pit on Sunday, Xinhua news agency said. By July 16, China's death toll from natural disasters so far this year was 715 with 129 missing, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Source : Yahoo News
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