Chinese officials arrested for concealing true scale of flood death toll

Beijing government says officials in Henan province were found to have deliberately underreported the disaster Officials in a Chinese province deliberately underreported or concealed 139 deaths from last year's devastating flood disaster, the country's central government has said, amid arrests of some of those involved. Record-breaking rainstorms hit Henan province in central China between 17 and 23 July, overflowing reservoirs, breaching riverbanks, and overwhelming public transport systems and...