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BEIJING - Authorities have evacuated about 13,000 people from a flood-hit region of central China along the banks of a tributary of the Yangtze River, the official Xinhua news agency said.
More heavy rain is expected to fall in the next two days in the province of Hubei and the local government is on alert for further flooding along the Hanjiang River, Xinhua said in an overnight report seen on Tuesday.
"The flood is still under control though it seems still severe," Cai Qihua, deputy director of the Yangtze flood control headquarters, was quoted as saying.
There was no mention of any casualties.
State radio said on Monday that 67 Chinese military students were missing after torrential rain from a typhoon rushed down a hillside and swept away their school buildings in the southeastern Chinese city of Fuzhou.
Typhoon Longwang, which raged across Taiwan on the weekend before moving on to China's adjacent Fujian province, also destroyed 5,400 residences and caused economic damage of around 1.2 billion yuan ($150 million).
Xinhua said 537,000 people had been evacuated to protect them from the typhoon, the 19th to hit China this year.
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