At least 20 killed by floods in S. China

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Torrential rains and floods continue to threaten people in southern China. At least 20 people were killed by the floods and two are missing as of Monday morning.

A local tricyclist struggles his way in the flood with a shut-down  bus being detained nearby in downtown Yingtan city in southern  China's Jiangxi Province, July 4, 2009. Heavy rain and storm  struck the city saturday paralysing part of the city's  communications. (Xinhua/Hu Nan)

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In Fujian, five people were killed and two remain missing. In neighboring Jiangxi province, five people died and 230,000 people fled their homes. Eight people died in Hunan province and 140,000 were forced out of their homes. In Guangdong, two construction workers were killed by a collapsed wall.

And over 300,000 people were relocated in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region with no reports of casualty so far. But nearly four thousand homes in the region had been destroyed and nearly a hundred forty thousand hectares of farmland damaged. Direct economic losses from the rains stood at 1.5 billion yuan in the region.