Floods kill eight on China-NKorea border
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At least eight people were killed and one was left missing as heavy rains triggered fresh floods in northeast China on the border with North Korea, state media reported on Friday.
Nearly 1,200 houses were toppled and 170,000 people evacuated after the border city of Dandong in Liaoning province received 78 millimetres of rain between Thursday and Friday, Xinhua news agency said.
The latest deluge follows floods last week in which four people were killed in Dandong after the Yalu river flooded, Xinhua news agency said. The river forms the border with North Korea.
The fresh floods left at least eight dead, one missing and 136 injured, Xinhua said, quoting a report from the Dandong city government.
Shipping has been at a standstill on the Yalu river since August 19 as water levels remain dangerously high, Lu Xiusheng, deputy head of the flood control headquarters in Dandong, told Xinhua.
The fresh floods are likely to frustrate efforts to clean mud and debris left in the city from last week's deluge.
Parts of North Korea near the border were submerged by the floods last week, the state Korean Central News Agency reported at the time, with thousands evacuated.
The impoverished state has been hit by widespread flooding this summer which has washed away homes, roads, railways and farmland, causing an unspecified number of deaths, according to North Korean state media reports. (
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