CHENGDU, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) -- Sixteen people have been killed and 66 others are still missing in rain-triggered floods and landslides in southwest China's Sichuan Province over the past week, a local official said Friday.
Downpours have hit 67 counties in 14 cities and prefectures since Aug. 13, affecting 5.76 million people, said Yan Weidong, director of the Provincial Emergence Response Office.
About 3,600 homes have collapsed, 25,000 others have been damaged, and 55,000 hectares of crops have been flooded, he said. Direct economic loss was estimated at 6.89 billion yuan (1.02 billion U.S. dollars).
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