China is getting too much rain and not enough rain [Video]

BEIJING, China — China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding in parts of the south and a heat wave and potential drought in the north.

The body of a student who fell into a swollen river in the southern city of Guilin was found two days later on Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV said in an online report. Elsewhere in the Guangxi region, heavy rains flooded homes in some villages, with 137 people evacuated as of Sunday morning, CCTV reported.

To the east, landslides and flooding hit parts of Fujian province, with excavators used to clear the mud in Songxi county on Sunday after a landslide trapped a truck. Videos posted online by the Quanzhou city government showed vehicles inundated with muddy flood waters …