Photos circulating online show disturbing images of drowned children lying in mud.The Ministry of Civil Affairs said late on Friday that more than 400,000 people have been evacuated.Local police blames a failure of a river levee for the heavy casualties, but villagers have complained to local media that they were not notified in time to evacuate when authorities decided to discharge floodwater from an upstream reservoir. BEIJING: Torrential rains that swept through China this week have left at least 112 people dead and 91 others missing.Various provincial governments reported the figures on Saturday, after the rains this week flooded streams, triggered landslides and destroyed homes.The northern province of Hebei has been hit the hardest, with authorities there saying 72 people were killed and 78 missing.In the Hebei city of Xingtai alone, 25 people were killed and another 13 were missing.Daxian village in Xingtai was nearly wiped out when it was suddenly swamped by a flash flood in the early hours of Wednesday as villagers were asleep.

Source: Times of India July 23, 2016 05:20 UTC