At least 118 dead from rains, floods
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July 15, 2010, Thursday
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RAINSTORMS and floods sweeping through parts of China have left at least 118 people dead and 47 missing since July 1, the Civil Affairs Ministry said yesterday.
By 4pm yesterday, more than 32.3 million people in 10 southern provinces and Chongqing Municipality had been affected by continuous rainstorms and floods, the ministry said.
About 101,000 houses were destroyed and close to 1.1 million people relocated, it said. Direct economic losses were estimated at 22.2 billion yuan (US$3.3 billion).
Torrential storms also have pelted the Yangtze River basin this week - including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces. More rain was expected to batter affected regions through today.
Heavy rains overwhelmed three reservoirs in Poyang County in Jiangxi, forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.
Workers are rushing to dig and widen emergency waterways to lower the water levels in the swollen reservoirs.
In east China's Anhui Province yesterday, soldiers used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River, preventing the flooding of riverbank villages.
The plan to demolish part of the Qingcao Township Dike on the Dasha River was delayed on Tuesday after torrential waters snapped the explosives' blasting wires.
But soldiers managed to repair the wires and conduct the blast yesterday, when water levels subsided and weather improved, according to Zhang Jun, an army official. Water levels at the dike were markedly lower after the blast, Zhang added.
The continuous downpours in Anhui have resulted in the deaths of at least two people and disrupted the lives of more than 4 million.
More than 5,100 houses have collapsed and 17,700 others have been damaged in the heavy rains.
The rains have caused at least 1.8 billion yuan in economic losses, the provincial disaster relief office said.
In Chizhou, one of the worst-hit cities in Anhui, water levels in 282 reservoirs - about 70 percent of all reservoirs in the city - have exceeded warning lines. Workers are fixing four reservoirs damaged by landslides and spillway collapses.
In Huaining County, Anqing City, workers are racing to fortify the Hexi Dike at 60 places. About 180,000 people live alongside the dike.
Meanwhile, the waters in a reservoir near the far western city of Golmud began to subside after hundreds of workers and soldiers finished digging a diversion channel, an official at the Qinghai Province water bureau said.
More than 10,000 residents were evacuated as soldiers carried sandbags, rocks and dirt and used bulldozers to dig the emergency waterway, Golmud's government website said.
By 4pm yesterday, more than 32.3 million people in 10 southern provinces and Chongqing Municipality had been affected by continuous rainstorms and floods, the ministry said.
About 101,000 houses were destroyed and close to 1.1 million people relocated, it said. Direct economic losses were estimated at 22.2 billion yuan (US$3.3 billion).
Torrential storms also have pelted the Yangtze River basin this week - including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces. More rain was expected to batter affected regions through today.
Heavy rains overwhelmed three reservoirs in Poyang County in Jiangxi, forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.
Workers are rushing to dig and widen emergency waterways to lower the water levels in the swollen reservoirs.
In east China's Anhui Province yesterday, soldiers used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River, preventing the flooding of riverbank villages.
The plan to demolish part of the Qingcao Township Dike on the Dasha River was delayed on Tuesday after torrential waters snapped the explosives' blasting wires.
But soldiers managed to repair the wires and conduct the blast yesterday, when water levels subsided and weather improved, according to Zhang Jun, an army official. Water levels at the dike were markedly lower after the blast, Zhang added.
The continuous downpours in Anhui have resulted in the deaths of at least two people and disrupted the lives of more than 4 million.
More than 5,100 houses have collapsed and 17,700 others have been damaged in the heavy rains.
The rains have caused at least 1.8 billion yuan in economic losses, the provincial disaster relief office said.
In Chizhou, one of the worst-hit cities in Anhui, water levels in 282 reservoirs - about 70 percent of all reservoirs in the city - have exceeded warning lines. Workers are fixing four reservoirs damaged by landslides and spillway collapses.
In Huaining County, Anqing City, workers are racing to fortify the Hexi Dike at 60 places. About 180,000 people live alongside the dike.
Meanwhile, the waters in a reservoir near the far western city of Golmud began to subside after hundreds of workers and soldiers finished digging a diversion channel, an official at the Qinghai Province water bureau said.
More than 10,000 residents were evacuated as soldiers carried sandbags, rocks and dirt and used bulldozers to dig the emergency waterway, Golmud's government website said.
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