Flood's death toll hits 12; 10 missing

By Huang Zhiling in Chengdu and Zhou Lihua in Wuhan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-06-30 08:19
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Firefighters attend to a girl's injuries on June 28, 2020 at a shelter for people affected by floods in Mianning county, Sichuan province. As of Monday, at least 12 people were reported killed and 10 missing in floods caused by steady downpours on Friday and Saturday, the county government said. Heavy rains continued to hit parts of southern China on Monday. [Photo/Xinhua]

Search and rescue personnel paid a house call to each of the more than 600 families in the village. More than 3,000 people from those families will be relocated to three centralized resettlement sites, Lu said.

Floods in southern China have affected more than 12 million people, with 78 people killed or missing and 729,000 evacuated, as well as more than 8,000 houses toppled and 97,000 houses damaged since the beginning of this month, with direct economic losses of nearly 26 billion yuan ($3.7 billion), according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

China's National Meteorological Center on Monday issued a blue alert for rainstorms as heavy downpours continue to inundate vast stretches of the country.

From Monday morning to Tuesday morning, heavy rain and rainstorms are expected in the provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Sichuan, Hebei and Shandong, the National Meteorological Center said.

Some of these regions will see up to 7 centimeters of hourly precipitation accompanied by thunderstorms and strong winds, the center said.

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