Four children die in school canteen collapses

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-11-12 22:16

The snowfall reached 22.5 mm in Yanggu County and Dongying City recorded a snowdepth of 16 cm as of 11 am.

One person was killed and 350,000 people were affected in Shandong Province. A total of 17 houses and about 40,000 vegetable greenhouses collapsed. Some 2,400 hectares of farmland were affected and the direct economic losses reached 250 million yuan, a provincial government official said.

Five people were killed and 36 were injured in Shaanxi since the snowstorm hit the province on Monday. Of them, three died in a chicken farm house collapse and two died in a market shelter collapse.

Meanwhile, more than 1,200 houses collapsed and over 1,900 were damaged in the snowstorm. About 31,500 hectares of farmland were affected and the direct economic losses were 437 million yuan, according to the provincial civil affairs department.

Beijing braced for the third snowfall in November early Thursday morning, and road traffic was disrupted at the morning peak, driving passengers to the already crowded subway stations.

Nearly 1,000 sanitation workers had used 528 tonnes of snowmelt agent and 1,320 tonnes of liquid snowmelt agent to clean up the snow on the roads as of Thursday noon. Currently, about 8,000 workers with 1,263 snow sweepers are still working on the major roads in Beijing.

Xinhua reporters saw little traffic Thursday morning in Zhengzhou City, capital of Henan Province, as snow covered the city for a third day. Many people were walking to work and all traffic police were on the road.

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