中國西南部洪水造成14人死亡，4萬5千人撤離

Chinese state media say 14 people are dead and tens of thousands have been displaced by flooding in southwestern official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday that 35 other people are missing and 3,000 are stranded in a single county in Guizhou province. It said 45,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in Wangmo agency said heavy rains have washed away more than 500 vehicles, toppled 100 homes, destroyed road and bridges and damaged more than 5,000 hectares of cropland.

The rains, which began late last week, have brought some relief to residents and farmers on the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, who have been suffering the region's most severe drought in orities said the summer rainy season has arrived just in time to help farmers who are engaged in planting rice, but serious economic losses still are expected.中國國家媒體說，西南地區的洪水導致14人死亡，數萬人被轉移。官方的新華社星期二說，有35人失蹤，3000人被困在貴州省的一個縣。有4萬5000人被迫從望謨縣轉移。新華社說，大雨沖走至少500輛汽車，淹沒100間房屋，摧毀公路和橋樑，毀壞5000多公頃農田。

上個星期晚些時候開始的大雨爲長江中下游居民和農民緩解了數十年來最嚴重的旱災。當局說，夏天的雨季及時到來，幫助了種植水稻的農民，但仍然會有嚴重的經濟損失。