BEIJING (AP) - Flooding along China's Yangtze River has killed 240 people and caused more than $3 billion in economic losses since the flood season began in late June, the government said Tuesday. Heavy rains have swelled the Yangtze and its tributaries, demolishing homes by the tens of thousands, destroying 1.6 million acres of crops and damaging 8.6 million acres, the Civil Affairs Ministry said. Government rescue teams have moved 1.84 million people from inundated areas and distributed 5,000 tents, the agency said in a release carried by the official Xinhua News Agency.