Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in China's southwest after heavy rain caused hillsides to collapse, while two people died and 16 are missing following a mudslide in the country's west, state media reported Saturday.
‘s southwest after heavy rain caused hillsides to collapse, while two people died and 16 are missing following a mudslide in the country’s west, state media reported Saturday.‘s northeast, leading to a breach in a river dike and the cancellation of at least 20 trains.suffer heavy rains and flooding every summer, but this year has been unusually severe in some areas, while other regions struggle with drought that is damaging crops.
In the southwest, some 81,000 people were evacuated from high-risk areas of Sichuan province, the China News Service reported. It said heavy rain caused hillsides to collapse and disrupted traffic, but there was no word of deaths or injuries. State TV showed a 500-member military construction brigade working in the dark Friday night to close a 90-meter-long breach in a river dike in Fuyu, a city in Jilin. They drove steel rods into the ground and piled up hundreds of sandbags to fill the gap.
Also in the northeast, six rivers and reservoirs in Heilongjiang province were above warning levels, according to Xinhua.ChinaA total of 142 people nationwide were killed by flooding, landslides and mountain torrents in July, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.
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