Deadly floods sweep through China after days of torrential rain
Deadly floods sweep through China after days of torrential rain
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Deadly flooding has hit large parts of central and southern China, as torrential rains continued on Tuesday.
Witness video, verified by Reuters, showed a car being swept away in the southwestern Guizhou province – towards a pile of vehicles that had suffered the same fate.
Schools, businesses and transport services were closed, according to state broadcaster CCTV, with power supplies disrupted.
In the central province of Hubei, emergency and military personnel were seen helping residents escape danger, many of them senior citizens.
One report showed rescuers struggling to reach a man trapped in chest-height water behind a door.
It said they took an hour before they managed to get him to safety.
Aerial footage showed floods swamping vast areas across Hubei as well as its southern neighbor, Hunan.
The disastrous conditions have left several people dead across the three provinces.
While at least 10 people were killed after a farm truck fell into a swollen Guangxi river in the southwest, CCTV reported.
Authorities said they have allocated about $22 million for disaster relief.
China’s weather agency said other provinces affected include Jiangxi, Anhui, Guangdong and Hainan.
It warned of landslides and flash floods as well as severe urban flooding and waterlogging.
The unusually large area of intense rain spans more than 620 miles, according to Chinese meteorologists.
A slow moving weather system has led to high cumulative rainfall, they said, as abundant moisture from the Bay of Bengal, the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean converged.
The National Meteorological Center said the severe weather would gradually move east and south across China over the next two days.
Heavy rainfall is expected along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Wednesday.
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