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Torrential rains leave 11 dead, 8 missing in south China
By Yang Jian |
June 25, 2012, Monday
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ELEVEN people were killed, eight went missing and more than 710,000 people were afflicted as torrential rains flooded a large part of south China in the past few days.
Heavy downpours have swollen 42 rivers in nine provinces including Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Hunan since Friday, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters says today.
More than 16,000 residents have been evacuated; about 49,000 hectares of crops were washed away; and over 7,000 houses collapsed, causing an economic loss of 705 million yuan, according to the flood control officials.
"The disastrous rainstorms will move toward southwest China and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the coming three days and may bring floods to those areas," the Central Meteorological Observatory says today.
Mudslides, thunderstorms and hails are likely to hit the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the mountainous regions in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and Anhui provinces, the observatory warns.
Meanwhile, drought will plague the region between the Yellow River and the Huai River. Some 4.28 million people and 4.85 million livestock are short of drinking water across China, mainly in Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Yunnan and Hubei provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Heavy downpours have swollen 42 rivers in nine provinces including Jiangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan and Hunan since Friday, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters says today.
More than 16,000 residents have been evacuated; about 49,000 hectares of crops were washed away; and over 7,000 houses collapsed, causing an economic loss of 705 million yuan, according to the flood control officials.
"The disastrous rainstorms will move toward southwest China and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the coming three days and may bring floods to those areas," the Central Meteorological Observatory says today.
Mudslides, thunderstorms and hails are likely to hit the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the mountainous regions in Sichuan, Hunan, Hubei and Anhui provinces, the observatory warns.
Meanwhile, drought will plague the region between the Yellow River and the Huai River. Some 4.28 million people and 4.85 million livestock are short of drinking water across China, mainly in Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Yunnan and Hubei provinces and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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