The torrential downpour which began Saturday is the latest disaster in a summer season that has brought the nation's worst flooding in a decade.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday toured an area in northwest China wracked by an avalanche of rain and mud that killed at least 127 people and left another 2,000 missing – the latest disaster in a summer season that has brought the nation's worst flooding in a decade.
Wen's visit came as rescue teams franticly searched flooded homes for survivors in rain-swollen Zhouqu County in the nation's northwestern Gansu Province.
A torrential downpour began late Saturday in the province's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, an area dominated by steep and barren terrain. Most of the area's 135,000 residents are ethnic Tibetan herders and farmers.
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