As many as 199 people are now feared to have died in flooding which has swept southern China over the past ten days.
A statement from the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs added a further 123 victims were reported as missing across the ten provinces which have been hit.
Some 29 million residents in the Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces have been hit by the flooding, with as many as three million displaced from their homes.
Officials added over 1.6 million hectares of farmland have been flooded, while 195,000 houses have collapsed and 568,000 others have been damaged.
Total economic losses are estimated at 42.12 billion yuan to date.
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