A firefighter clears debris from a damaged apartment in Huangshi city, central China’s Hubei Province, yesterday. Severe convective weather, including thunderstorms, gale-force winds, and tornadoes, battered eastern Hubei on Monday, which left 11 people dead and one missing, according to provincial authorities. The storms destroyed 22 buildings, damaged more than 4,800 others, and injured at least 331 residents. Over the past few days, heavy rains and high winds triggered reservoir breaches and landslides in parts of Hubei, Guangxi, and Gansu, causing deaths and destruction.Xinhua