Flood fatalities toll 76 as services held for victims
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Fushun City in northeast China held memorial services for flood victims yesterday, as the death toll rose to 76.
Another 88 people remained missing as of Friday, a week after Fushun in Liaoning Province was ravaged by flooding described as the worst in decades by Mayor Luan Qingwei at the mourning ceremony.
Wearing white flowers, some 200 soldiers, paramilitary officers, medical staff and volunteers attended the main ceremony in the worst-hit Nankouqian Township of Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County.
As a siren wailed at 9am, mourners stood in silence, pedestrians stood to pay their respects and vehicles stopped and sounded their horns.
Services were held in seven other parts of Fushun, where rain wreaked havoc on August 16. Nankouqian township received 449 millimeters of rain.
The National Meteorological Center issued a rainstorm alert yesterday, warning of torrential rains in the country’s south until this morning. Yunnan Province, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and parts of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces may see 300 mm of rain, the center said.
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