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1More heavy rain across western China has caused mudslides and flooding, killing at least 20 people and trapping more than 10,500 others, state media said on Friday, in the latest natural disasters to hit the country. ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil, In Longnan, in poor and remote Gansu province, 15 died and more than 10,000 were trapped following torrential rains and landslides, state television said. ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil, More than 1,000 people died in the nearby town of Zhouqu when an avalanche of mud roared down the slopes of a mountain last weekend after unusually strong downpours. ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil, In Sichuan province to the south, mudslides have killed five people and trapped more than 500 others, Xinhua news agency added. ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil,ffxiv gil, The rains there started late on Thursday in Mianzhu, close to Sichuan provincial capital Chengdu, it said. The area was hard hit during a massive earthquake in 2008 which killed at least 80,000 people.
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