Death toll in China floods crosses 105

The death toll in China's worst floods in decades in the northeast and southern regions in the past one week rose to 105 today, even as a series of landslides buried six vehicles and trapped an unknown number of people.
A total of 105 people were killed and another 115 are missing after floods ravaged northeast region and a typhoon lashed southern region, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a statement.
Northeastern Liaoning Province and southern Guangdong Province have reported the most number of casualties from the disasters, with 54 deaths and 22 deaths respectively.
Rain-triggered floods that started to hit northeast region last week also left 15 and three people dead in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces respectively, the ministry said, citing reports from local agencies.

Ninety-seven and six people are missing respectively in Liaoning and Jilin, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Xinhua also described the floods in the north as the "worst in decades".
Typhoon Utor continued to wreak havoc in southern regions after making landfall Wednesday in Guangdong and has killed 22 people, with eight more missing in the province, the statement added.

Neighboring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Hunan Province reported six and five deaths from the typhoon respectively.
Besides damaging houses and farmland, the floods and typhoon affected 3.72 million people in northeast and 8.37 million in south, including 6.67 million in Guangdong, it said.

Meanwhile, a series of landslides today buried six vehicles and trapped an unknown number of people on highways in southern region today, local authorities said.
The landslides have affected more than ten sites on sections of highway in Guiping City, which is under the administration of Guigang City in southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xinhua reported.
Officials said landslides occurred on a section of the No 322 provincial-level highway near Hualei village in Guiping and caused a collapse of a 100-meter section of highway, burying two trucks and blocking traffic.
Over 200 vehicles were stranded at the accident site.