Rainstorm-triggered floods in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality have killed at least ten people in the last four days, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in Beijing on August 5.
Another one person is still missing, the ministry said.
Continuous rainfall since Sunday also caused landslides and mud-rock flows in some parts of the mountainous municipality.
More than 1.5 million residents of Chongqing were affected by the floods as of Wednesday, among them about 123,000 people were relocated, the ministry said.
Direct economic losses caused by the floods amounted to 680 million yuan (about 99.5 million U.S. dollars), with more than 10,000 houses toppled in the floods and 16,000 more damaged, it said.
