Summer floods in China have killed 536 people and forced over one million from their homes, the government has said. Torrential rains in much of the country have left southern China submerged beneath muddy waters in the deadliest early floods for a decade. Heavy rains have come earlier than expected, with the city of Wuzhou, and the provinces of Guangxi and Guangdong badly hit. The worst flooding in recent years was in 1988, when 4,150 people died. Rivers have burst their banks and vicious mudslides have contributed to the death toll in the south, where 97 people died in the past week, and another 41 remain missing, Chinese state media said. Chinese officials expressed concern that the floods have yet to peak.

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