Floods and landslides triggered by torrential rains have left 19 people dead, 20 missing and thousands trapped in parts of west China, apart from the Zhouqu mudslides that killed more than 1,000, local authorities said Friday.
At 7:30 pm on Wednesday, our driver drove north to take the five of us, a batch of reporters from China Daily, from Zhouqu to nearby Dangchang county, where we planned to spend the night.
Survivors of the deadly landslide in Zhouqu will suffer more mental stress than those who escaped death after the 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan in May 2008, a psychologist told China Daily on Aug. 11, 2010.
When the landslide was coming on Sunday, Yan Jude, 72, was pushed by his neighbors to escape from his six-story building. When he rushed to the top floor, he saw the roaring landslide rushing into his house like falling walls.
Tuesday was our third day in the disaster area. The sadness on people's faces was fading into blank expressions of numbness. While an overwhelming sense of death and sorrow hung in the air, life carried on, as some food stores, banks and even a stationer reopened for business.
Insufficient drinking water and toilets, weak infrastructure and crowded living conditions are increasing the possibility of an outbreak of infectious diseases after a major mudslide in Zhouqu. How to help 
702 killed 'I could hear the mud roar'
The avalanche of mud, dirt and debris that engulfed the city of Zhouqu on Saturday also buried its survivors in an inescapable sorrow.
The death toll from a massive rain-triggered mudslide in Zhouqu County of northwest China's Gansu Province has risen to 702 as of Tuesday afternoon, with 1,042 others still missing, local civil affairs authorities told a news conference.
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After a 10-hour arduous journey on stone-paved roads, two of my colleagues and I arrived at the landslide-hit county of Zhouqu at about 7:30 pm.
The death toll from rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu County of Northwest China's Gansu province has risen to 137 as of 4:07 pm Monday, with 1,348 others still missing, said the provincial civil affairs department.Rescuers blasts river-blocking debris Wen inspects Zhouqu Villager survives 'You can just tell it is a person' Slide
About 30,000 local residents of four townships in Nong'an county of Northeast China's Jilin province have been evacuated over fears a new round of downpours could cause more floods.
With the approach of a new round of torrential rains, the country roads in flood-ravaged Nong'an county in Northeast China were packed with villagers fleeing their homes Wednesday.
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