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Record rainfall in quake zone
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September 12, 2012, Wednesday
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RECORD rainfall since late Monday has ravaged a remote mountainous region in southwest China that was damaged by earthquakes last week, triggering floods that cut off roads and forced thousands of quake refugees to flee temporary shelters.
The government of Yiliang County in Yunnan Province has sent rescuers to help evacuate more than 2,000 people, a government spokesman said. Messages seeking help came in as early as dawn yesterday.
The flood has affected 100,000 people in the quake zone and 63 have been injured. By late yesterday, 13 remained in hospital, the spokesman added.
Rain began falling in Yiliang on Monday night and reached about 100 millimeters in most areas - 162mm in the worst-hit town - in just a few hours.
The county's headquarters for flood control and drought relief said the rainfall was the heaviest in local meteorological history. It damaged drinking water pipelines and disrupted an alternative water source.
Landslide and mud-rock flows triggered by the rain also slowed disaster relief work in Yiliang, where multiple earthquakes - with the strongest measuring 5.7-magnitude - have claimed 81 lives since Friday.
Authorities said they are sending 4,700 folded beds, more than 2,000 raincoats and 2,000 tents into the quake zone, where thousands of refugees are still in temporary shelters. A team of more than 700 medical workers was also sent to the worst-hit areas.
Four days after the quakes, traffic to rural parts of the county remained blocked and telecommunications disconnected.
A bridge in front of the county hospital was submerged by river flooding yesterday morning.
The government of Yiliang County in Yunnan Province has sent rescuers to help evacuate more than 2,000 people, a government spokesman said. Messages seeking help came in as early as dawn yesterday.
The flood has affected 100,000 people in the quake zone and 63 have been injured. By late yesterday, 13 remained in hospital, the spokesman added.
Rain began falling in Yiliang on Monday night and reached about 100 millimeters in most areas - 162mm in the worst-hit town - in just a few hours.
The county's headquarters for flood control and drought relief said the rainfall was the heaviest in local meteorological history. It damaged drinking water pipelines and disrupted an alternative water source.
Landslide and mud-rock flows triggered by the rain also slowed disaster relief work in Yiliang, where multiple earthquakes - with the strongest measuring 5.7-magnitude - have claimed 81 lives since Friday.
Authorities said they are sending 4,700 folded beds, more than 2,000 raincoats and 2,000 tents into the quake zone, where thousands of refugees are still in temporary shelters. A team of more than 700 medical workers was also sent to the worst-hit areas.
Four days after the quakes, traffic to rural parts of the county remained blocked and telecommunications disconnected.
A bridge in front of the county hospital was submerged by river flooding yesterday morning.
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