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1,100 missing in China as Asian flood misery rises (AP)

August 9th, 2010

Rescue workers search amongst the debris after a mud slide swept away a large part of the town of Zhouqu, Gannan prefecture, in northwestern China's Gansu province, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for hundreds of people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Rescuers lifted muddy bodies into trucks, and aid convoys choked the road into the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing Monday from…

1,100 missing in China amid widespread Asia floods (AP)

August 9th, 2010

Rescue workers search amongst the debris after a mud slide swept away a large part of the town of Zhouqu, Gannan prefecture, in northwestern China's Gansu province, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. Rescuers dug through mud and wreckage Monday searching for hundreds of people missing after flash floods and landslides struck northwestern China. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **AP - Rescuers lifted muddy bodies into trucks, and aid convoys choked the road into the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing Monday from…

Death toll from Pakistan floods rises to 1,100 (AP)

August 1st, 2010

Pakistani children sit on a bed to eat their food, in a flood hit area of Qasim Bella, on the outskirts of Multan, Pakistan, on Saturday, July 31, 2010. The death toll in the massive flooding in Pakistan surged past 800 as floodwaters receded Saturday in the hard-hit northwest, an official said. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer)AP - The death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 Sunday as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging…