Rainstorms have killed five people and affected more than 90,000 in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said on Tuesday.

Strong rain hit the Xing'an League from June 20 to 22, inundating 58,600 hectares of cropland, damaging nearly 10,000 houses and sweeping away more than 7,000 head of livestock, a civil affairs bureau spokesman said.

Roads and bridges in some places were also destroyed.

The local government has sent clothes, quilts and other relief supplies to the disaster-hit areas, the spokesman said.

The meteorological bureau has forecasted heavy rain in the areas for Wednesday and issued a flood warning.

Meanwhile, rain and flooding continued to wreak havoc in southern China where at least 63 have died and 13 others were missing. About 1.66 million people have been evacuated, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.

(Xinhua News Agency June 25, 2008)