At least 40 people dead after worst flooding for decades
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Thousands of people have been engaged in relief efforts in northeast China after the worst flooding in decades that has killed at least 40 people since Friday.
Liaoning Province reported 15 deaths yesterday, bringing the death toll from severe floods in the area to 40.
The deaths were all in Fushun City. Thirty-two other people are still missing after downpours drenched the city on Friday and Saturday, according to the city’s flood control and drought relief headquarters.
Dams were damaged and businesses suspended operation in the city. Some 349 houses collapsed and 139,800 houses were damaged. A total of 4,000 people are in need of temporary shelters.
Gao Fuyan, 53, a villager of Nanzamu Township, was one of them. “I had to spend the night in the roof yesterday. The rain was so heavy and I was so scared,” Gao said.
Two bags and a plastic bag containing some old clothes were all she has left.
The power and water supplies to the town were cut off after the torrential rain.
Across the province, about 100,000 people have been evacuated and nearly 800,000 were affected in the floods after downpours with a maximum precipitation of 400 millimeters within 24 hours, according to the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters.
Some 113,333 hectares of farmland were also affected.
More than 110,000 people are taking part in disaster relief efforts in Liaoning.
Floods hit a residential community in Hongshi Township, Huadian City, Jilin Province last Friday, leaving 14 people dead.
Hundred of residents are taking shelter in a township primary school.
Heilongjiang Province reported at least 11 flood-related deaths.
The floods have destroyed more than 2,500 houses and damaged at least 12,500 others in the province.
The water levels of the Songhua and Heilongjiang, two major rivers in the province, have been on the rise over the past week.
The water level at the Jiayin County section of the Heilongjiang River reached 100.09 meters, 0.59 meters more than the safety level. Some 15,290 people in the county had been evacuated by yesterday morning.
More than 60,000 people in Heilongjiang Province have been engaged in rescue efforts.
Meanwhile, floods triggered by continuous downpours since Friday have left at least twenty people dead and another seven missing in south China’s Guangdong Province.
A total of 61 reservoirs reported water levels surpassing the danger lines, the Guangdong flood control and drought relief headquarters said. Some 1.55 million people were affected by the floods. About 200,000 people had been evacuated by yesterday evening.
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