1,100 missing as death toll in China landslide rises to 337

RESCUERS dug through mud and wreckage yesterday searching for more than 1,100 people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China and killed 337, one of aseries of floods across Asia that have killed hundreds of people and spread misery to millions more.

In Pakistan, frustratedvictims railed against the government’s anaemic relief effort for the estimated 13 million people affected by the country’s worst-ever floods, while rescuers in mountainous India-controlled Kashmir raced to rescue dozens of stranded foreign trekkers and find 500 people still missing in flash floods that have killed 140.

Sunday’s disaster in China’s Gansu province killed at least 337 people and swamped entire villages. Another 1,148 were missing, Chen Jianhua, the Communist Party chief of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, told the Xinhua News Agency.