Landslides triggered by torrential rain kills seven people and injures two in Pubei County in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region by Monday afternoon, bringing the country's death toll of tropical storm Bilis to at least 177.

Vehicles make their way on a flooded street in Fuzhou, China's Fujian province, July 16, 2006. [Newsphoto]

The rain-swollen Leishui River in the central province of Hunan overflowed, flooding the Shenjiawen Colliery and killing seven technicians who were in the pit for emergency rescue operations and six workers who were trapped in collapsed houses and flooded pump rooms, rescuers confirmed on Monday.

Continuous rainstorm caused by the tropical storm that landed in China on Friday swelled the upper reaches of the Leishui River in Leiyang city and destroyed the dams of a reservoir close to the colliery on Saturday.

Hunan is the worst-hit province as 92 people have been confirmed dead and more than 100 missing. Floods and rainstorms set off by the tropical storm also claimed 33 lives in Guangdong Province, 43 in Fujian Province and nine in Guangxi.

Fourteen of Fujian's 68 counties and cities have recorded rainfall of more than 200 millimeters, including two whose rainfall exceeded 400 millimeters.

Three million people had been affected by flooding, 19,100 houses destroyed and 519,000 people evacuated by 6:00 p.m. on Sunday.

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