Heavy rains will continue on Monday in the southern areas of China, China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said on Monday.

 

Torrential rains will hit southeastern Sichuan, western Chongqing, southern Anhui and central Jiangsu, according to the administration.

 

Heavy rains or rainstorms are also expected in northeastern Yunnan, most parts of Chongqing, northern Guizhou, and parts of Hunan, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

 

These regions may also experience temporary thunderstorms and heavy winds, which could trigger mountain torrents, landslides and mudflows as well as floods, said the administration.

 

Floods have left 94 people dead and 25 others missing in seven provinces in China, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on Sunday.

 

About 16.67 million people had been affected and 555,100 people in Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Chongqing and Shaanxi evacuated by 4 p.m. Sunday.

 

Hundreds of thousands of houses were damaged and millions of hectares of farmland affected.

 

(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2007)