37 killed, 19 missing in torrential rains in China

May 12, 2012 12:37

The death toll from hail and rain storms in a mountainous area in northwest China has risen to 37 while 19 people remained missing.

The storms had affected 358,000 people in Minxian county in Gansu province, forcing the evacuation of nearly 30,000 local residents.

Hail and torrential rain, battered the county over two days starting Thursday, cut power in six townships, damaged several homes, hospitals and schools, disrupted traffic on two inter-provincial highways and destroyed over 7,000 hectares of crops, county authorities said.

China's National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Civil Affairs Ministry yesterday raised the level of emergency response from level 4 to level 3, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

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