LIULAN, China (AFP) — Rescuers scoured flooded parts of China for survivors on Wednesday after storms killed 17 people and caused dozens of rivers to overflow and a reservoir dam to burst, with officials warning of more rain.

Extreme weather has wreaked havoc on the country’s south and center this week, with a super typhoon heading towards eastern provinces this weekend.

In the southern region of Guangxi, six people died and at least 130,000 people were moved to safety after torrential rain and severe flooding from “Typhoon Maysak,” regional officials said, warning rain would continue to fall there and in neighboring Guangdong province on Wednesday.

Fast-flowing muddy water burst the banks of 40 rivers and waterways in Guangxi, damaging nearly 13,000 acres of agricultural land, state media reported.

One hotel employee in the city of Guigang told Agence France-Presse that over the past two days, the water level had risen to the height of a one-storey house, and that residents had to evacuate to hotels or to relatives’ houses elsewhere.

While the water had receded now, they said, there was still over a meter of standing water in low-lying places like underpasses.

Videos published by state broadcaster CCTV showed torrents of water rushing past the crumbled concrete walls of a reservoir dam that had burst, while rescue workers wearing life vests were deployed on inflatable boats.

Chinese authorities were sending additional disaster relief like food, raincoats and rubber boats to the region, state news agency Xinhua reported on Wednesday.