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Continuous rainstorms are wreaking havocs in China.
Rain-triggered flood and landslides have killed dozens.
Heavy rains also damaged facilities and caused chaos.
Over the past week, Sichuan Province in southwest China has been battered by heavy rains.
Fifty-eight people were killed and 175 others went missing due to rainstorm-triggered floods and landslide.
Among the death toll, 44 were killed in a major landslide that hit a village in Dujiangyan City on Wednesday.
117 people went missing in the landslide.
Wenchuan, the epicenter of a devastating earthquake in 2008, was again under the spell of rainstorms.
Various expressways were blocked or destroyed due to landslide, cutting some villages with the outside.
The north China is no better.
In the northwestern Shaanxi Province, rain-triggered landslide cracked an underground oil pipeline in Yan'an City on Monday.
A tonne of crude oil flew into a seasonal river.
More than 3,000 people have joined clean-up efforts.
They put 18 floating dams to curb the spread of oil and remove it from the river.
SOUNDBITE(CHINESE) NAN LISUO, Pipeline operator:
"The material of the floating dam can absorb the oil and prevent its spread. "
Heavy overnight rain has also toppled a road bridge that formed part of a national expressway in the city of Fuxin, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, killing four people.
Rains and flood also killed 26 people in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
