140 people dead or missing in China due to floods

Rescuers transfer residents trapped by floods in Jiujiang City, east China's Jiangxi Province, July 8, 2020. /VCG

A total of 140 people have died or are missing and 30.20 million have been affected due to floods in 27 provincial-level regions, including east China's Anhui and Jiangxi provinces as of 2:00 p.m. local time Thursday, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.

As of Thursday, 1.721 million people were relocated, and 22, 000 houses collapsed.

The floods have caused direct economic losses worth 61.79 billion yuan (some 8.81 billion U.S. dollars).