Heavy rains in China’s neighboring Hunan and Guangxi provinces on Thursday caused flooding and landslides, wiping out entire villages and displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in southern China, the Associated Press (AP) reported. region.
Heavy rains, which started on June 1 in Hunan province, continued until June 9. Last week, typhoons caused record flooding in the mostly rural, mountainous state. Authorities in Hunan province reported ten dead and three missing from Thursday’s flooding.
“More than 2700 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, and around 286,000 people were evacuated across the province. [of Hunan]”China’s official state press agency, Xinhua, reported on June 9.
Severe weather conditions in Hunan province spread to the nearby Guangxi region, and on June 9, flooding caused deadly landslides in some rural communities.
“In Guangxi, rescuers were searching for survivors on Thursday in several villages near the city of Beilu, where rains flooded the slopes and easily collapsed,” Xinhua said. “Seven people have been confirmed dead in the landslide, one person is missing and at least one person has been recovered alive,” he said.
On Saturday, June 4, 2022, floodwaters swept through the ancient city of Feng Huang in central China’s Hunan province. State media reported a large number of dead and missing due to flooding in the state. (AP Photo)
Hunan provincial official Li Dajian spoke with Xinhua on Thursday about the ongoing natural disaster and said Hunan has received “historic amounts” of rain since June 1.
“The heavy rains have led to a significant rise in water levels in rivers and lakes,” Lee told the news agency.
“The whole province is actively intervening at all levels and making every effort to prevent (disaster),” he said.
Li said, without giving details, about 1.79 million people in Hunan were “affected” by the flooding in a week. The population of Hunan province is about 67 million people.
Xinhua reported on June 9 that Hunan provincial authorities provided “tents, trundles, food and clothing” to displaced people across the state.
Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, made no direct mention of the ongoing flooding in Hunan and Guanxi on June 8 when a Communist Party official visited neighboring Sichuan province to “assess” its economic development.
“Speaking about recent floods and geological disasters in parts of China, Xi Jinping called for early emergency preparedness to protect life and property. He also called for rapid rescue efforts to reduce loss of life and property after natural disasters,” he said.
“Flooding is common in central and southern China, where summer brings frequent heavy rains,” Agence France-Presse said on June 9.
The central city of Zhengzhou in China’s Henan province made international headlines last summer after China’s worst flooding in a decade brought heavy rains. On July 20, 2021, hundreds of Zhengzhou passengers were stranded in flooded subway cars. Sad video recording of witnesses caught A traffic accident that killed at least 14 people. The flash flood that caused the subway tragedy claimed the lives of about 300 Zhengzhou residents in one day.
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