Heavy floods that have hit towns across southern China have killed at least 80 people and forced almost 700,000 to flee, state media said today.
There may be worse to come with torrential rains forecast to pound the region at least until the end of the week.
The floods, which witnesses say have reached 27 metres in places, have killed at least 32 people in Guangxi and forced the evacuation of 330,000 to safe ground.
Military planes dropped food, medicine and other urgent supplies to some of Guangxi's worst-hit counties, with around 10,000 people trapped in areas cut off by flood waters, state television said.
South China is struck by fatal floods nearly every summer. Widespread deforestation compounds the problem, as torrential rains trigger rock slides and mud flows off bare mountainsides.