China declared a national day of mourning for victims of a massive landslide in the remote northwest, as authorities today stressed the importance of hygiene and safety for the thousands now living in temporary shelters.

New landslides killed 24 people and left another 24 missing in China’s remote north-west today as downpours threatened more devastation and made rescue work difficult in a region where more than 1,100 people have died.

The death toll from China’s floods rose to more than 1,100 today, with another 600 people still missing.

Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early today, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained an engorged reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains.

China poured rescue workers and equipment into a mountainous Tibetan region today in a bid to find survivors after earthquakes killed more than 600 people and injured thousands.

At least 53 people are missing after a landslide hit a county in Sichuan province in China’s south-west, according to state media.

Chinese rescue teams carrying tents, quilts and sacks of rice rushed today to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes into rubble and cracked reservoirs.

Weeks of rain pushed rivers over their banks in southern China, killing at least 112 people and displacing more than 1.27 million as the region braced for more downpours.

Rescue workers sifted through tangled debris of toppled schools and homes today for thousands of victims buried or missing after China’s worst earthquake in three decades, as the death toll soared to more than 12,000 people in the hardest-hit province alone.

Snowstorms that have battered many parts of China over the last three weeks have killed at least 60 people and caused 53.3bn Yuan (€5bn) in damage.

Typhoon Wipha, which fizzled into a tropical storm while sweeping across eastern China, killed nine people and left three missing when it lashed the region with winds, torrential rains and landslides, reports said today.

Typhoon Wipha, which fizzled into a tropical storm while sweeping across eastern China, killed seven people and left three missing when it lashed the region with winds, torrential rains and landslides, reports said today.

China’s death toll from Typhoon Saomai rose to at least 104 today, with another 190 missing, as the most powerful storm to strike the country in five decades weakened into a tropical depression.

China’s death toll from tropical storm Bilis more than doubled to 482 today after a hard-hit province reported a sharp rise in fatalities, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Landslides triggered by torrential rain in southern China have killed at least 12 people and injured 24, while thousands of residents escaped unhurt after a rain-swollen river flooded their villages, the government said today, as the region braced for more heavy rain.

At least 55 people have been killed and 12 are missing amid the worst flooding in eastern China in three decades, the government said today.

AT least 258 people were killed and more than 1,000 injured yesterday when an earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale ripped through a remote area in northwest China.

CHINESE authorities have evacuated 600,000 people from around the dangerously swollen Dongting Lake as it threatens to engulf millions more, state media said yesterday.