Deadly Floods Ravage China’s Guizhou, Guangxi Provinces; Over 80,000 Displaced
Deadly Floods Ravage China’s Guizhou, Guangxi Provinces; Over 80,000 Displaced
Torrential floods have claimed at least six lives and forced over 80,000 people from their homes across China’s Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. The devastating waters, which began overwhelming counties like Rongjiang and Congjiang in Guizhou on Tuesday, have since surged downstream, inundating rural settlements along the Liu River in neighboring Guangxi.
On Thursday, the situation intensified with reports of ‘exceptionally large floods’ sweeping through Guizhou’s Rongjiang county. The mountainous region of Guangxi has seen towns and villages by key rivers become half-submerged, with concerns compounded by the expected landfall of a tropical cyclone later on Thursday, threatening to exacerbate the disaster.
This latest natural calamity unfolds as China grapples with a summer of extreme weather. Just last week, tens of thousands were evacuated in Hunan province due to heavy rains, and the capital Beijing recently experienced one of its hottest days of the year, prompting a high-level heat warning.
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