PTI Beijing

At least 17 people have died while 33 are missing in torrents and landslides in China in the last 48 hours, official media here reported on Friday. President Xi Jinping has urged all-out search and rescue efforts, and flood prevention and disaster relief work after mountain torrents hit northwest Gansu province on Thursday, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Friday.

At least 10 people were killed and 33 others listed missing in mountain torrents in Gansu province, it said. In another incident, seven people died and seven others injured following a rain-triggered landslide in Guangzhou, the capital of China's southern Guangdong province, on Wednesday, local officials said on Friday.

The landslide occurred in Dayuan Village in Guangzhou's Baiyun District, trapping 14 people and damaging multiple houses, according to the district's emergency management bureau. On-site cleanup work is ongoing, along with geological hazard risk assessments in affected and surrounding areas. 

Safety inspections and evaluations of residential buildings will also be carried out to support follow-up work, Xinhua reported. In Gansu, torrential rain pounded Yuzhong, which is under the jurisdiction of the provincial capital city of Lanzhou, and other areas of Lanzhou on Thursday evening, with the maximum precipitation reaching 220.2 mm by noon Friday.