DEATH TOLL RISES IN CHINA'S DEVASTATING FLOODS

  • 23/07/2021

The death toll from the rain-triggered unprecedented floodsin central China has risen to 51 with the official estimate of losses totalling about $10 billion. The torrential rains, the heaviest in 1,000 years, have affected about three million people in Henan province and a total of 376,000 local residents have been relocated to safe places, the provincial emergency management department said. The direct economic losses have gone up to 65.5 billion yuan ($10 billion), it said. As Zhengzhou city of 12 million people limped back to normalcy, rescuers are assisting thousands of people caught in the floodwaters. On Thursday, officials raced to evacuate patients as hospitals were flooded by rainstorms. The patients were shifted to hospitals that escaped the flood fury.

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