China warns of extensive flooding after heavy rains
BEIJING (Reuters) -The Chinese authorities warned of flooding floods and rapid currents in the mountainous regions of the eastern, central, southwestern regions of the country after heavy rains there.
The first alerts, the first alerts of this year, were released late on Thursday that cover areas in the provinces of Anhawi, Hanan, Habi, Hunan, Gitcho, Guangzhi, and the government news agency Xinhua, a martyr of the Ministry of Water Resources and China -Chinese Chinese National Air Force.
China suffers from heavy and surprising rains in many parts, which have attributed meteorologists to climate change, leaving its huge residents vulnerable to related disasters.
In southern Hunan, heavy rains in the largest floods since 1998 in the upper and lower rivers of the Lesoy River caused more than two meters of water levels on Thursday.
In the mountainous city in the southwest of Chungzings, residential blocs were flooded in muddy waters, and some vehicles were swept in flooding water flowing in the streets, according to CCTV broadcaster CCTV and their photos from Thursday.
The image showed that the flood water almost reaches the highest power cable lines. CCTV said that water and energy supplies were also broken in some areas.
Nearly 300 people from the cities and villages were evacuated in the Bingchoy County, where the accumulating daily rains reached 304 mm (12 inches), and the floods were worse due to the rains of the mountains that converge to the Ditang River, which is swollen 19 meters, according to CCTV.
Shenhua said that the water in several other rivers in Chungzings exceeded the levels of alert due to severe rains.
On Wednesday, energy supplies in the city of Tashinag were disrupted in the southern Guangdong Province, where the flood water rose more than five meters over the warning levels, and historical records were broken, local media reported.
(Participated in Liz Lee and Beijing News Room reports; edited by Muralikumar Anantharaman)