Facebook Twitter 新浪微博 Instagram YouTube Thursday, Jun 16, 2016
Search
Archive
English
English>>China Society

14 Dead in Floods, Hailstorms across Three Chinese Provinces

(Xinhua)    16:45, June 16, 2016

A car is submerged in Shuiyuan Township of Huanjiang County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 15, 2016. Torrential rain hit Huanjiang Wednesday morning, causing severe waterlogging of farmlands and traffic interruption in some areas. [Photo: Xinhua/Gao Dongfeng]

Floods and landslides have caused 13 deaths in southwest China's Guizhou Province and central China's Hunan Province while a hailstorm had killed one in northern Shanxi Province as of Thursday morning, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.

Guizhou has reported nine fatalities and nine missing with about 65,600 people evacuated, due to heavy rainfall and landslides this month, said the ministry in a statement.

Hunan has confirmed that four people have died, six remain missing and 157,000 people have been evacuated, while Shanxi reported one death and one missing, the statement said.

The central government has dispatched emergency response teams to supervise relief work in the three provinces.

"The rescue and relief work in three provinces is going well," the statement said.

(For the latest China news, Please follow People's Daily on Twitter and Facebook)(Editor:Ma Xiaochun,Bianji)

Add your comment

Related reading

We Recommend

Most Viewed

Day|Week

Key Words