US EditionFlooding in China Displaces 80,000 as Extreme Weather Worsens
GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA, JUN 25 – Continuous heavy rain and a tropical depression caused floods that submerged infrastructure and killed six, forcing emergency evacuation of over 80,000 residents in Guizhou province, officials said.
- Severe flooding struck Rongjiang County in Guizhou Province starting Tuesday, displacing around 80,900 people by Tuesday afternoon.
- The flooding was triggered by continuous rainstorms and intensified by a tropical depression, while Chinese officials recently issued the year’s earliest highest-level warnings for flash floods across six areas.
- Videos revealed that villages were flooded, with a soccer field covered by water reaching about three meters deep, and a bridge collapse left a truck driver stranded precariously before he was dramatically rescued.
- Resident Long Tian described how the floodwaters surged rapidly, while You Guochun recounted narrowly escaping as a bridge gave way right before his eyes, illustrating the sudden and severe nature of the flooding.
- Authorities raised the local emergency response to the highest level and mobilized over 1,000 soldiers with heavy machinery to aid relief efforts amid concerns over increasingly frequent extreme weather.
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