BEIJING: The death toll from unprecedented rain-triggered floods in central China has risen to 56 with five people reported missing and an official estimate of around $10 billion in damages. State media gave this information on Friday.
Torrential rains, the heaviest in 1,000 years, have affected nearly 3 million people Henan Province and a total of 376,000 local residents have been shifted to safer places, provincial emergency management department Said.
The death toll from torrential rains in central China’s Henan province has risen to 56, with five people reported missing. xinhua news agency Quoting local officials.
Rescue efforts are still underway, including a drainage operation in the Jingguang Road tunnel in the provincial capital. private loan agreementA submerged underpass where several vehicles were stuck since Tuesday, according to the provincial emergency management department.
The department said that there is still a large amount of water in the tunnel, where casualties have been reported. The exact number of casualties is yet to be confirmed.
Direct economic losses have reached 65.5 billion yuan ($10 billion) China Daily Quoting local officials.
Rescue teams are helping thousands of people trapped in floodwaters after 12 million people returned to normalcy in the city of Zhengzhou. On Thursday, officials rushed to evacuate patients as a rain storm flooded hospitals. Patients were admitted to hospitals to avoid the havoc of the floods.
Meanwhile, Zhengzhou downgraded its emergency response level as it continues to clean up after this week’s devastating floods, but more heavy rain was falling in other parts of Henan province, Hong Kong-based south china morning post Reported.
Several days of heavy rain had hit Zhengzhou, which has not caused floods of such intensity in decades.
More than 8,000 military personnel worked in 10 different danger zones around the city, Xinhua news agency reported.
Donation counters were set up around the city to distribute essential supplies after panic-stricken residents bought supplies during the first days of the floods.
Meanwhile, firefighters are visiting nearby villages to help residents who have been injured or stranded and were working all day to clear flooded roads.
Roads were turned into flowing rivers, flooding people and vehicles and apartments. Hundreds of cars were washed away in the floods in different parts of the city.
Torrential rains, the heaviest in 1,000 years, have affected nearly 3 million people Henan Province and a total of 376,000 local residents have been shifted to safer places, provincial emergency management department Said.
The death toll from torrential rains in central China’s Henan province has risen to 56, with five people reported missing. xinhua news agency Quoting local officials.
Rescue efforts are still underway, including a drainage operation in the Jingguang Road tunnel in the provincial capital. private loan agreementA submerged underpass where several vehicles were stuck since Tuesday, according to the provincial emergency management department.
The department said that there is still a large amount of water in the tunnel, where casualties have been reported. The exact number of casualties is yet to be confirmed.
Direct economic losses have reached 65.5 billion yuan ($10 billion) China Daily Quoting local officials.
Rescue teams are helping thousands of people trapped in floodwaters after 12 million people returned to normalcy in the city of Zhengzhou. On Thursday, officials rushed to evacuate patients as a rain storm flooded hospitals. Patients were admitted to hospitals to avoid the havoc of the floods.
Meanwhile, Zhengzhou downgraded its emergency response level as it continues to clean up after this week’s devastating floods, but more heavy rain was falling in other parts of Henan province, Hong Kong-based south china morning post Reported.
Several days of heavy rain had hit Zhengzhou, which has not caused floods of such intensity in decades.
More than 8,000 military personnel worked in 10 different danger zones around the city, Xinhua news agency reported.
Donation counters were set up around the city to distribute essential supplies after panic-stricken residents bought supplies during the first days of the floods.
Meanwhile, firefighters are visiting nearby villages to help residents who have been injured or stranded and were working all day to clear flooded roads.
Roads were turned into flowing rivers, flooding people and vehicles and apartments. Hundreds of cars were washed away in the floods in different parts of the city.
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