(Xinhua 2008-07-23 22:37:43)-- Ten people died and two were missing after rain lashed central China's Hubei Province from Sunday to Wednesday.
As of 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the weather-triggered floods had forced 100,000 people to evacuate and
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affected nearly 3 million, the Hubei Civil Affairs Department said.
About 11,500 houses had collapsed or were damaged. The weather had caused direct economic losses of more than 1.2
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billion yuan (176 million U.S. dollars) for the province.
Large swathes of crops were also destroyed.
From Sunday through Wednesday, the storms had hit many areas in Hubei, inundating residential communities, cutting off roads and damaging communications and power facilities in the worst hit Xiangfan and Enshi cities.
The department has allocated 200 tents and 500 quilts to Enshi. A working team from the Ministry of Civil Affairs will go to Xiangfan to direct the relief work.
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