Death toll in central China floods now exceeds 300

Xing, a shop owner at Yubei Agricultural and Aquatic Products World, walks in floodwaters at the market in Xinxiang in central China’s Henan Province (Dake Kang/AP)

More than 300 people died in recent flooding in central China, authorities said, three times the previously announced toll.

The Henan provincial government said 302 people died and 50 remain missing.