100s evacuated after heavy rain triggers flooding, landslides in east China
Hundreds of residents were evacuated in eastern China after heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides in multiple provinces, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday (August 28).
Images shown on CCTV showed emergency personnel evacuating an elderly resident in a wheelchair in Xuchang city in Henan province after floodwaters rose to a meter (3.3 feet) high, trapping residents.
Yidu, a city in Hubei province, issued a red alert -the most severe warning in China's four-tier weather alert system- as footage carried by CCTV showed vehicles driving through heavily flooded roads and bulldozers clearing rubble from landslides.
China has been gripped by weeks of rains and floods amid an unusually wet summer. In late July, storms from Typhoon Doksuri caused record rains to hit China in over a decade, with Beijing experiencing its heaviest rainfall in 140 years.
(Source: Reuters)
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