12 killed as rainfall batters south China
By Yang Jian |
June 26, 2012, Tuesday
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AT least 12 people have been killed, with another eight missing as of late yesterday, as downpours continued to batter China's south, forcing the evacuation of millions of residents.
The rain, which began late Thursday, triggered floods in 42 rivers in nine provinces including Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Hunan, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said.
It issued an emergency alert at 2pm yesterday asking local governments across the country to ensure the safety of reservoirs and dams.
The hardest-hit area was southern Guangxi, where at least eight people have died since Thursday in the autonomous region.
In Hezhou, more than 10,000 people were evacuated and economic losses of 200 million yuan (US$31.4 million) incurred, flood control officials in the city said. One resident died in a hospital after suffering serious injuries in a landslide, while another was crushed to death in a house collapse.
Rainstorms and gales have also hit the southern coastal city of Beihai over the past several days and are set to continue.
Shipping routes from Beihai to Weizhou Island and from Beihai to Haikou, capital of the southern Hainan Province, were suspended from 8am on Sunday, the local maritime department said.
In east China's Zhejiang, heavy rain forced 17,000 people to relocate and affected the lives of more than 350,000 others since June 22. A 12-year-old girl died when her house was buried in a landslide on Saturday in Zhejiang's Songyang County.
Rain has been battering central China's Hunan Province since Thursday, killing one person, leaving another missing and affecting the lives of 138,000 others, officials said.
Details of another seven people missing have not been revealed by authorities.
A landslide in Hunan's Chenzhou city blocked roads and rivers and stranded 130 tourists.
More rain and storms are expected to hit Zhejiang, Fujian and Anhui provinces in the east, as well as Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in the southwest.
"The rain will extend to southwest China areas and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the next three days and may bring the floods in those areas," the National Meteorological Center said yesterday.
Water levels at the Three Gorges Dam indicate that a major flood on the upper Yangtze River may be on the way, according to the Yichang Maritime Safety Administration.
The rain, which began late Thursday, triggered floods in 42 rivers in nine provinces including Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Hunan, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said.
It issued an emergency alert at 2pm yesterday asking local governments across the country to ensure the safety of reservoirs and dams.
The hardest-hit area was southern Guangxi, where at least eight people have died since Thursday in the autonomous region.
In Hezhou, more than 10,000 people were evacuated and economic losses of 200 million yuan (US$31.4 million) incurred, flood control officials in the city said. One resident died in a hospital after suffering serious injuries in a landslide, while another was crushed to death in a house collapse.
Rainstorms and gales have also hit the southern coastal city of Beihai over the past several days and are set to continue.
Shipping routes from Beihai to Weizhou Island and from Beihai to Haikou, capital of the southern Hainan Province, were suspended from 8am on Sunday, the local maritime department said.
In east China's Zhejiang, heavy rain forced 17,000 people to relocate and affected the lives of more than 350,000 others since June 22. A 12-year-old girl died when her house was buried in a landslide on Saturday in Zhejiang's Songyang County.
Rain has been battering central China's Hunan Province since Thursday, killing one person, leaving another missing and affecting the lives of 138,000 others, officials said.
Details of another seven people missing have not been revealed by authorities.
A landslide in Hunan's Chenzhou city blocked roads and rivers and stranded 130 tourists.
More rain and storms are expected to hit Zhejiang, Fujian and Anhui provinces in the east, as well as Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces in the southwest.
"The rain will extend to southwest China areas and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the next three days and may bring the floods in those areas," the National Meteorological Center said yesterday.
Water levels at the Three Gorges Dam indicate that a major flood on the upper Yangtze River may be on the way, according to the Yichang Maritime Safety Administration.
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