China to increase prevention efforts as a new round of storms are expected

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency
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New storms expected to pound ravaged southwest China province

As China's southwest province of Guizhou has already suffered deadly landslides due to heavy rainfall, Government departments are being called upon to enhance prevention efforts and monitoring of disasters-prone areas while new storms are expected to trigger mud flows, landslides or other disasters due to strong rainfall forecast to last for days in the southwest China province, says Xinhua News.

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