A firefighter transfers trapped residents with a lifeboat on a flooded street in Laibin City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 2, 2010. Laibin City was battered by heavy rain Monday night and Tuesday. The city center, the worst-hit by the rainstorm, received 439 mm of rainfall, an all-time high. [Xinhua]

A policeman helps a boy to get on a lifeboat on a flooded street in Laibin City, southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 2, 2010. Laibin City was battered by heavy rain Monday night and Tuesday. The city center, the worst-hit by the rainstorm, received 439 mm of rainfall, an all-time high. [Xinhua]