July 20, overwhelming the already drenched city. Economic losses for Henan alone are likely to reach at least USD 13.79 billion (SCMP, 2021b). The worst came after Zhengzhou was hit by 8 inches of rain in one hour starting at 4 p.m. As of 2 August 2021, 302 deaths were officially reported. the high numbers for 1991 are attributable to a flood in China. At least 10 people have been killed and three are missing in flooding in the central Chinese province of Hunan, while a landslide buried parts of a. Wang Kai, the governor of Henan province, expressed deep condolences to the victims and sympathies to the families on behalf of the Henan Communist Party committee. In 2008, the death toll in Asia was particularly high: considered as a proportion of. The death toll remained at six in an expressway tunnel from which 247 vehicles were removed as it was drained.
The Henan provincial government said 302. The death toll from the floods caused by an extratropical cyclone in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to eight on Saturday, while 19 people remained missing. The previous death toll, announced Friday, was 99.Īuthorities said 189 people were killed by floods and mudslides, 54 in house collapses and 39 in underground areas such as basements and garages and including those on subway Line 5. BEIJING More than 300 people died in recent flooding in central China, authorities said Monday, three times the previously announced toll. Fourteen people died in the subway flooding. Video posted online showed vehicles being washed away and desperate people trapped in subway cars as the waters rose. Record rainfall inundated the city on July 20, turning streets into rushing rivers and flooding at least part of a subway line. Ten others died in three other cities, officials said at a news conference in Zhengzhou. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the flood-hit areas of the central Chinese province of Henan with the death toll from the record rainfall rising to 33, officials said on. The vast majority of the victims were in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital, where 292 died and 47 are missing. The Henan provincial government said 302 people died and 50 remain missing. Of the 50 people still missing in Henan province, 47 were from Zhengzhou, local officials told a briefing on Monday.ĭirect economic losses in Henan reached 114.27 billion yuan ($18 billion), with more than 580,000 hectares of farmland affected.Ĭhina's State Council said it will set up a team to investigate the disaster in Zhengzhou and will hold officials accountable if found to have derelicted their duty, the official Xinhua news agency reported.Watch Video: Livelihoods washed away in China floodingīEIJING - More than 300 people died in recent flooding in central China, authorities said Monday, three times the previously announced toll. Over three days last month, 617.1 mm (24.3 inches) of rain fell in Zhengzhou, nearly equivalent to its annual average of 640.8 mm, causing widespread damage and disruption in a city that is a major transport and industrial hub. In total, 39 people died in underground areas in Zhengzhou including garages and tunnels. Officials in a Chinese province deliberately underreported or concealed 139 deaths from last year’s devastating flood disaster, the country’s central government has said, as authorities arrested. In Zhengzhou, a city of 12 million that lies along the Yellow River, the death toll was 292, including 14 who perished when a subway line was flooded. BEIJING, Aug 2 (Reuters) - The death toll from last month's floods in the central Chinese province of Henan rose to 302 as of Monday, officials said, triple the figure of 99 that was reported last week, with most of the fatalities reported in the provincial capital Zhengzhou.
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