Wednesday, August 18, 2010

1,100 Missing in China Amid Sweeping Asia Floods

CBS NEWS

More Than 300 Dead as Rain-Triggered Landslides Strike Northwest, Collapsing Buildings and Burying Victims in Mud and Rubble.

(AP) Updated 10:49 a.m. ET

Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for more than 1,100 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China, one of a series of floods across Asia that have killed hundreds and spread misery to millions more.

Chinese state media says the death toll in Sunday's massive landslide has risen to 337.

In Pakistan, frustrated victims railed against the government's anemic relief effort for the estimated 13 million affected by the country's worst-ever floods, while rescuers in mountainous Indian-controlled Kashmir raced to rescue dozens of stranded foreign trekkers and find 500 people still missing in flash floods that have killed 140.


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