BEIJING – A wide swath of southern China prepared on Sunday for more seasonal rains and floods that state media has already left more than 120 dead or missing this year.
The National Meteorological Center raised the weather alert to yellow Sunday morning, the third highest of four warning levels, for more than half a dozen provinces and the cities of Shanghai and Chongqing.
Heavy torrential rains were forecast until Monday afternoon.
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Images from state television CCTV showed flooded streets and farmland in Anhui province.
A rescue worker helps a worker cross a ladder to cross the waters of a construction site in Jing’an County in central China’s Jiangxi Province at midnight on Friday, July 3, 2020.
(Chinatopix via AP)
To the south, in Jiangxi province, more than 8,000 people have been evacuated and 54 houses collapsed after storms in recent days, the network said.
A wide swath of southern China prepared Sunday, July 5, 2020 for more seasonal rains and floods.
(Chen Xingyu / Xinhua via AP)
Across the country, flood-related disasters destroyed 17,000 homes, caused $ 5.9 billion in economic losses and left 121 people dead or missing so far this year, the official People’s Daily newspaper said in a publication in the social networks, citing the Ministry of Emergency Management.
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The National Meteorological Center said parts of Anhui, Hubei, Hunan and Zhejiang provinces could see 4 to 9 inches of rain. It also issued a yellow rain alert in two northeast provinces, Heilongjiang and Jilin.
