Storm Pounds Southern China

ANCHOR:
And it was a weekend of intense weather in Guangdong Province in China. Torrential rains battered the region, leaving death and destruction behind. Here's more from the manufacturing city of Guandong.

STORY:
Weeks of torrential rain have transformed roads across southern China into avenues of mud. The manufacturing hub of Guandong is among the hardest hit provinces. Severe flooding has followed in the wake of tropical storm Fengshen.

The storm, downgraded from a typhoon after ripping through the Philippines last week where it killed hundreds of people, triggered flash flooding and deadly mudslides across the waterlogged region.
Emergency workers used boats - virtually the only means of transport - to rescue people caught in rising waters.

The period of intense and prolonged wet weather has left lakes and reservoirs across the south dangerously high, forcing authorities in many areas to open flood gates in a bid to avoid further chaos.
While China is used to seeing flooding during its annual rainy seasons, Chinese scientists are increasingly concerned that global warming is partly to blame for extreme weather that has brought chaos and misery to large parts of the country in recent years.

China's leading meteorologists are predicting that in future such weather events are likely to grow in frequency and intensity.

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