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The death toll in China's latest round of flooding has risen to at least 57, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged into a pond, authorities said Saturday, The Associated Press reports.

At least 13 other people are missing in floods that have ravaged mountain districts of six provinces and autonomous regions in central and southeastern China. More than a quarter-million people have been moved to temporary shelters, and major damage has been inflicted on buildings and crops.

Among the dead were 16 people killed in the collapse of a nine-story building in the city of Guiyang following a landslide.

The Guangxi regional government said another 21 kindergarten students were sent to the hospital in the school bus accident on Friday, with three listed in serious condition. The bus was licensed to carry 11 people, but had a total of 26 on board.

The driver, teachers and school administrators have been taken into custody, the government said.

Six people were killed in the central province of Hunan when a bus skidded into a guardrail and overturned.