Five people have died and several others are missing due to heavy rains that swept through Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in southern China over the weekend.

Authorities issued a series of alerts warning of risks from mountain floods and geological disasters in the southern regions of the country.

The Xinhua News Agency reported that the China National Meteorological Center issued repeated warnings of heavy rainfall expected from Sunday to Monday, affecting Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, as well as Guangxi and Guangdong provinces.