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BEIJING: Seven people were killed in flash floods in south-western China on Wednesday, as authorities in Beijing tripled the death toll from the capital’s heaviest-ever rains. China has been hit by record downpours in recent weeks, damaging infrastructure and deluging swaths of Beijing’s suburbs and surrounding areas. And in south-western Sichuan province, flash flooding on Wed­nesday killed seven people on …

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