A citizen sits on a chair in a street of Beigeng Township of Xingcheng County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, July 2, 2011. The traffic here has been almost resumed thanks to water recession after being submerged by flood for two days. A flash flood triggered by days of heavy rain submerged here, trapping more than 2,600 residents in their homes for two days, local officials said Friday. [Xinhua]

Five people were killed by rain-triggered floods that have inundated south China since Tuesday, according to the National Disaster Reduction Commission on Saturday.

The floods also forced the evacuation of 55,000 people and caused direct economic losses of 770 million yuan (119 million U.S.dollars), according to the commission.

A new round of rainstorms have been pounding south China over the last five days, triggering mudslides in the provinces of Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan.