Heavy rains causing landslide and flash floods have swept across parts of southern China in recent days, killing at least 70 people and forcing 145,000 others to evacuate to safer place.
Rising water levels threaten dyke system and reservoirs, destroy roads and bridges, and affect the life of millions of local people.
Jiangxi is the most devastated province with 24 deaths. Initial economic loss is estimated at over 1.2 billion Chinese yuan (175.7 million USD).
Guangdong province reported 19 deaths, six missing, more than 800,000 others evacuated and 10,000 houses collapsed. Loss is about 1 billion Chinese yuan.
The meteorological agency said this year’s flooding in China ’s southern provinces started a month earlier than normal due to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
Storms and whirlwinds have claimed 94 lives and left 21 others missing across 13 cities and provinces since early this year.
Natural disasters damaged over 80,000 houses and 673,600 hectares of agricultural crops, affecting the life of more than 10 million local people. Initial economic losses were estimated at about 7.3 billion Chinese yuan (1.08 billion USD)./.
Rising water levels threaten dyke system and reservoirs, destroy roads and bridges, and affect the life of millions of local people.
Jiangxi is the most devastated province with 24 deaths. Initial economic loss is estimated at over 1.2 billion Chinese yuan (175.7 million USD).
Guangdong province reported 19 deaths, six missing, more than 800,000 others evacuated and 10,000 houses collapsed. Loss is about 1 billion Chinese yuan.
The meteorological agency said this year’s flooding in China ’s southern provinces started a month earlier than normal due to the El Nino weather phenomenon.
Storms and whirlwinds have claimed 94 lives and left 21 others missing across 13 cities and provinces since early this year.
Natural disasters damaged over 80,000 houses and 673,600 hectares of agricultural crops, affecting the life of more than 10 million local people. Initial economic losses were estimated at about 7.3 billion Chinese yuan (1.08 billion USD)./.
