China: Nearly 100 people died and went missing because of the flood

Heavy rains on many parts of China have caused floods to sweep many bridges and houses, killing dozens and missing.

>>>Landslide buried 17 people in China

The Associated Press news agency quoted a source from the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs as saying that flooding has affected the lives of more than 3 million people in 16 provinces and municipalities nationwide.

As of 9 am (local time) on July 11, there were 28 deaths, 66 people missing, and the actual number of casualties may be even higher.

According to the Sichuan provincial government, Southwest China, the province's flooding situation is the worst in 50 years. There were 9 deaths and 62 missing, most of which came from the terrifying landslide at the outskirts of Tam Khe village of the city of Dujiangyan.

Evacuate people from flooded areas in Sichuan, China.(Source: THX / VNA)

Heavy rain with 940 millimeters of water poured down on Jiangjiang for more than 40 hours since July 8 was the biggest rain since 1954.

Also in Sichuan, more than 2,000 people were rescued after being trapped for hours in a road tunnel between Jiaxing and Qiantan County.

In some areas, many bridges have been stopped and rail transport operations have been suspended.

In the ethnic autonomous district of Jiang North Xuyen, floods also devastated many houses, rescue teams are actively cleaning up the rocks to clear the way to 40 isolated villages.

The bridge collapse in Giang Du city swept away 6 cars and left 12 people missing. In Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan, the river's water flowed violently, flooding many areas, washed away many bridges and houses on both sides.

In the northern part of Shaanxi Province (northern China), at least 12 workers were killed on July 9 when storms caused a coal mine to be under construction. Other localities such as Yunnan, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Gansu, . floods also caused many deaths or missing.

Elsewhere, the China National Meteorological Center (NMC) July 11 has maintained an "orange" alert level for Hurricane Soulik, the second level of a four-level hurricane warning system.

According to NMC, Typhoon Soulik will move west-northwest to Taiwan Island (China) at a speed of about 22km / hour, with the storm expected to land or pass through Taiwan in the early morning of July 13.

Later, Hurricane Soulik will head straight to mainland Chinese coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian. Areas directly affected will likely have strong winds of level 15 to 17, equivalent to 227 km / hour, with heavy rain.

In Taiwan territory, authorities had to evacuate 2,300 tourists in Luc Dao, southeast of Taichung City, and issued warnings for ships moving in the northern sea area. and East.