BEIJING - China’s president visited a flood-battered southern city on Sunday, expressing condolences and vowing to help the thousands affected as the death toll from rain-triggered floods, landslides and mud flows across the nation rose to 152 from this week alone.
 Chinese president Hu Jintao talks with flood-stricken residents in southwest China’s Chongqing on July 22, 2007. The death toll from rain-triggered floods, landslides, and mud flows across the nation rose to 152 from this week alone. [Xinhua] (more…) |
