400 people were victims of the storms in China

BEIJING - more than 460 dead or missing in China since June, after the extreme weather of the summer, causing floods and landslides, officials said.

Local rain rains hit large areas of China since the beginning of last month, has caused havoc in some regions where the landslides and flash floods ravaged cities, killing and make people trapped.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs, Saturday (4, 7, 2011), said since June 1, a natural disaster due to the rain caused 355 people were killed and 112 people missing and forced more than 2.3 million people were evacuated.

China affected by heavy rains every summer. Floods last year, was that the worst in a decade struck leader of the country to the people over 4 300 dead or missing.

Landslide in Gansu province, Northwest of China last August led to 1,500 people have been killed. In the events related to the recent rain, 13 people were killed when a bus and a truck was hit by a landslide in Gansu province, the Xinhua official news agency, said Saturday.

The report said also more than 800 people and about 300 vehicles trapped on a province of Yunnan Highway, southwest of China after the road was blocked by mud and rocks. Earlier this month, landslides hit a town in the province of Shaanxi, which destroyed houses and killed 18 people.

The weather Agency, Sunday warned of widespread areas of the country will continue to be affected by the rains.