Floods and landslides killed 30 people in a central China province, with the rain-swollen Yangtze River that cuts through the province at dangerously high levels, a government Web site and state media said Tuesday. The flooding in Hubei province also left nine people missing, destroyed 53,400 homes and caused almost 800 million yuan (about US$100 million; ¤74 million) in losses, Xinhua News Agency reported. The heavy rain that triggered the floods started Thursday and had stopped by Tuesday.
