Troops sent in as flood disaster at highest level
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June 18, 2011, Saturday
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China has mobilized troops to help with flood relief work and raised its disaster alert to the highest level as heavy rain continues to cause landslides and flooding in central and southern provinces.
Rains and flooding in south China had left 25 people dead and 25 others missing over the past five days, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.
Heavy rain, the third round of torrential downpours this month, has been falling since Monday, battering 10 southern provinces and forcing around 671,200 people to evacuate their homes, according to a statement on the ministry's website.
A flooded river in eastern China is at its highest level in more than 50 years, the government said, as thousands of train passengers were stranded after landslides buried parts of a railway line in the southwest.
Flooding in China over the past two weeks has left more than 170 people dead or missing and forced out residents in regions along the Yangtze River.
The landslides and mudslides have toppled homes, and the torrential rains that caused them are forecast to last throughout the weekend.
Landslides crushed parts of a railway line in southwestern China, stranding 5,000 passengers on four trains overnight.
More than 2,000 rescuers with 10 excavating vehicles rushed to clear the Chengdu-Kunming railway, which links the provincial capitals of Sichuan and Yunnan, the Chengdu Railway Bureau said yesterday.
In eastern Zhejiang, the province's main river is at its highest level since 1955, China's flood control agency said. The Qiantang River was 2.4 meters above safety levels.
Elsewhere in the coastal province, a dike breached and flooded 18 villages.
The Zhejiang provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said torrential rain had triggered flooding and landslides, toppling 2,470 houses and flooding 351 roads.
A total of 2.09 million people from 43 counties in nine of the province's 11 cities were affected.
Many roads into the township of Xiangxi in the province were inundated.
Pedestrians returned home taking several steps because the water was too deep.
A man surnamed Xia was trapped under a viaduct when his car stalled. By the time police pulled him free, the water level was up to his waist.
The local government is fighting the flooding with 100,000 sacks and more than 17,000 cubic meters of wood and sand.
Nearly 3,000 vehicles and ships and 41,130 rescuers were dispatched for disaster relief.
Meanwhile, those affected by the disaster have been provided with quilts, food and water.
The flood control office of southwest China's Sichuan Province said rainstorms since Thursday had killed three people and left 17 missing.
Ensuing floods, landslides and mudslides pelted several southwestern regions, as well as areas along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
On Thursday, China upgraded its emergency response level to level 4, the highest level.
Rains and flooding in south China had left 25 people dead and 25 others missing over the past five days, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.
Heavy rain, the third round of torrential downpours this month, has been falling since Monday, battering 10 southern provinces and forcing around 671,200 people to evacuate their homes, according to a statement on the ministry's website.
A flooded river in eastern China is at its highest level in more than 50 years, the government said, as thousands of train passengers were stranded after landslides buried parts of a railway line in the southwest.
Flooding in China over the past two weeks has left more than 170 people dead or missing and forced out residents in regions along the Yangtze River.
The landslides and mudslides have toppled homes, and the torrential rains that caused them are forecast to last throughout the weekend.
Landslides crushed parts of a railway line in southwestern China, stranding 5,000 passengers on four trains overnight.
More than 2,000 rescuers with 10 excavating vehicles rushed to clear the Chengdu-Kunming railway, which links the provincial capitals of Sichuan and Yunnan, the Chengdu Railway Bureau said yesterday.
In eastern Zhejiang, the province's main river is at its highest level since 1955, China's flood control agency said. The Qiantang River was 2.4 meters above safety levels.
Elsewhere in the coastal province, a dike breached and flooded 18 villages.
The Zhejiang provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said torrential rain had triggered flooding and landslides, toppling 2,470 houses and flooding 351 roads.
A total of 2.09 million people from 43 counties in nine of the province's 11 cities were affected.
Many roads into the township of Xiangxi in the province were inundated.
Pedestrians returned home taking several steps because the water was too deep.
A man surnamed Xia was trapped under a viaduct when his car stalled. By the time police pulled him free, the water level was up to his waist.
The local government is fighting the flooding with 100,000 sacks and more than 17,000 cubic meters of wood and sand.
Nearly 3,000 vehicles and ships and 41,130 rescuers were dispatched for disaster relief.
Meanwhile, those affected by the disaster have been provided with quilts, food and water.
The flood control office of southwest China's Sichuan Province said rainstorms since Thursday had killed three people and left 17 missing.
Ensuing floods, landslides and mudslides pelted several southwestern regions, as well as areas along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
On Thursday, China upgraded its emergency response level to level 4, the highest level.
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