China: Bad floods make more than 80 people dead

As of August 27, prolonged heavy rains caused the worst floods in more than a decade in northern China, killing at least 85 people and more than 100 people missing and millions of people affected. heavy.

Officials in Jilin Province said on August 27 that heavy rain caused flooding in the province that claimed at least 20 people and more than 2.2 million people were affected.

Lifeguards help people in flooded areas.(Source: THX / VNA)

Floods "attacked" 56 areas in the province, forced to evacuate 239,000 people, at least 585,000 hectares of damaged crops, 12,000 apartments were destroyed and 146,000 houses were badly damaged. Estimated physical damage amounted to more than 10 billion yuan (1.7 billion USD).

The provincial government transferred 824 tons of grain and distributed the entire amount of 7 million yuan in emergency relief funds to flood-prone regions.

The storm also caused heavy damage to some other northern provinces of China such as Heilongjiang and Liaoning.

In Laos, heavy rains from August 20 to now have caused floods in parts of the North and Central regions at least 16 people have died, tens of thousands of people have lost their homes, thousands of hectares of crops submerged in water, cattle and poultry died massively, more than 115,000 people severely affected. It is estimated that Laos damage caused by storms and floods this year is up to 17 million USD.

On the same day, about 547 houses in Samar province, Central Philippines were struck by the tropical storm Kong-Rey, which the locals called Nando.

Currently, these families have been evacuated to live temporarily at a school. There are no statistics on human and material damage, but according to weather forecast, Kong-Rey will continue to increase and cause heavy rain on a large scale.