More than 200 dead or missing in China floods

Heavy rains resulting from a typhoon in southern China triggered landslides and killed at least 15 people, raising the number of dead or missing from recent flooding in the country to more than 200.

Nine people were reported killed in Hunan province and six in Guangxi, where vehicles were covered in mud and rocks along a mountain highway, local flood control offices said.

The deaths come after three people died Sunday in a landslide near the Guangxi city of Wuzhou.

Rains brought by last week's Typhoon Utor have caused severe flooding across Hunan, Guangxi and neighboring Guangdong province. In Guangdong, 22 people died and eight were missing in flooding since Friday.

By Tuesday morning, a total of 105 people were reported dead and 115 missing in the south and northeast of the country.

In the deadliest incident last week, torrential rains caused the Nei River in northeastern Liaoning province to overflow near the city of Fushun, sweeping away homes, roads and utilities, leaving 54 people dead and 97 missing.

Flooding hits China each summer, but heavy rains have brought greater than usual levels of destruction in some areas.

Further south, heavy rains in the Philippines, that had left more than half the capital and surrounding area under water began receding Tuesday, even as authorities evacuated thousands of residents along Manila's overflowing rivers and braced for more chaos in outlying provinces.

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At least eight people died, including four who drowned north of Manila. A further four people are missing.

Throughout the capital region of 12 million people, offices, banks and schools were closed and most roads were impassable. People stumbled through waist or neck-deep waters, holding on to ropes strung from flooded houses.

More than 200 evacuation centers filled with tens of thousands of people were opened in Manila and the surrounding provinces, Corazon Soliman, Secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), said.

More than 600,000 people have been affected by the floods.

Al Jazeera and The Associated Press