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Flood affects residents

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-04-08 10:09

A flash flood has affected more than 4,000 people in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region after increasing temperatures caused ice on the surrounding mountains to melt, local authorities said Tuesday.

A total of 1,163 households and 4,134 residents in Arxan city had been affected as of Tuesday morning, Gao Chen, deputy commander-in-chief of the city's flood control and drought relief headquarters, said.

The flood, the worst Arxan has experienced in 38 years, had caused economic losses totaling 47 million yuan ($6.8 million), he added.