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(Bloomberg) -- Local government officials underreported the number of people who died or went missing during severe flooding in central Henan province last July, China’s cabinet said, following a months-long investigation into the disaster. Officials in Henan either concealed or delayed the recording of 139 such cases, the State Council, China’s top government body, said in a report posted on its website late Friday. The final toll from the disaster was 398, the report showed. That compares with 302 confirmed deaths and 50 missing people in August, when China’s State Council launched a probe into the disaster after the toll...
