Heavy rains battered southern China over the weekend and into Tuesday, setting off landslides and causing roads and homes to collapse as rivers overran their banks.

       The landslides and flash floods killed at least nine people in Fujian Province and neighboring Guangdong, China’s most populous province. Dozens of people remained trapped or missing as of Tuesday.

       Days of severe rainfall forced thousands of people to evacuate and left more than 100,000 households without power as the region was inundated.

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