Rainfall continues to batter southern China

Mudslide kills 8 people in Hunan; 2 die when house collapses in Jiangxi

Torrential rainfall continued to lash parts of southern China on Sunday, triggering mudslides and flash floods in provinces such as Jiangxi and Hunan, where more than 10 people died.

Weather forecasters have warned that the downpours will further intensify in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River this week.

Two people died in a house collapse in a township in the city of Jiujiang, Jiangxi, while eight were killed in Hunan when a mudslide flattened four houses in a village in the province's Xinhuang Dong autonomous county, China Central Television and Xinhua News Agency reported on Sunday.