Torrential rains have isolated more than 20,000 people in south-west China with 14 people killed and dozens missing.

Heavy rain caused flash floods, cave-ins and landslides in mountainous Sichuan provinc, where survivors of a big earthquake earlier this year are still living in tents and pre-fabricated houses.

Thirty-eight people are missing and roads and telephone lines have been cut in the storms.

The rainstorms are in a separate weather system to a typhoon that hit south China on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people, closing schools, cancelling flights, uprooting trees and bringing down billboards in several cities.

Many rivers burst their banks and thousands of homes and large areas of forest and farms have been destroyed.

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