Highest-level rainstorm warning issued in south China's Guangdong

Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe flooding that state media said could be of the sort only "seen around once a century". On Tuesday, the megacity of Shenzhen was among the areas listed as experiencing "heavy to very heavy downpours", the city's meteorological observatory said, adding the risk of flash floods was "very high". Images from Qingyuan -- a city in northern Guangdong that is part of the low-lying Pearl River Delta -- showed...