The death toll from rainstorms triggered by Typhoon Kaemi has risen to 32 in China's south and east, state media said today.
Kaemi weakened to a tropical depression shortly after landing on China's southeastern coast on Tuesday, but the heavy rains it brought soaked five provinces, affecting six million people and forcing the evacuation of 1.3 million, state television said.
More than 60 people are missing.
The hardest hit is the eastern province of Jiangxi, where six were killed when flash floods along a mountainside swept away a military barracks in the early on Wednesday morning. Another 38 officers, soldiers and family members are still missing.
A further 17 villagers died and 15 went missing in floods and landslides in Jiangxi's mountainous south, where rivers overflowed and thousands of houses collapsed. Power, communications and roads were also disrupted.
The rain is expected to stop in the area on Saturday, but it will be followed by a three-day heatwave, prompting officials to warn against possible epidemics, Xinhua added.
Five people, including two young girls, were also killed by floods and landslides in the neighbouring southern province of Guangdong, Xinhua said. Three were missing in Fujian province, where Kaemi made its China landfall.
In the central province of Hunan, streets in the city of Chenzhou were flooded and at least three people were reported missing on Thursday.