Eleven people died and 27 others are missing after torrential rains battered southwest China´s Chongqing municipality, causing thousands of houses to collapse, state media said late yesterday night.
Nearly 40,000 people have been evacuated from their homes, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the local government as saying.
In Fengjie County, on the vast Yangtze river, landslides have formed two barrier lakes, with the water level rising a metre (three feet) an hour, according to local flood control officers.
More than one thousand local residents have been evacuated from the surrounding area.
