From the night of July 8, many areas in Sichuan province were battered by heavy rainstorms causing severe flooding, landslides, mass evacuations and the crippling of local transport facilities. Some of the worst hit regions included northern parts of the Sichuan-Tibetan Plateau and western Sichuan. However, Chengdu, Deyang, Mianyang and other larger cities were also saturated, with Dujiang alone receiving up to 554.1 mm of rain.
Some 727,000 people have been affected by the storms. In Wulipo, a village in Dujiangyan Zhongxing Township, a landslide is believed to have buried 30-40 people. Quake-stricken zones including Wenchuan have also been severely affected. Three bridges have collapsed there including one in Jiangyou City which has left at least 12 people missing.
Hundreds of flights into Chengdu’s Shuangliu Airport have been cancelled and expressways have been closed. "It is the biggest rainstorm in 50 years in the county. The deepest water in the ruins is 7 meters,” Wang Shoulei, an information officer in Beichuan was quoted as saying.
Source: peopledaily.com.cn
Warning：The use of any news and articles published on eChinacities.com without written permission from eChinacities.com constitutes copyright infringement, and legal action can be taken.
Keywords: severe rainstorms Sichuan province
All comments are subject to moderation by eChinacities.com staff. Because we wish to encourage healthy and productive dialogue we ask that all comments remain polite, free of profanity or name calling, and relevant to the original post and subsequent discussion. Comments will not be deleted because of the viewpoints they express, only if the mode of expression itself is inappropriate.
Please login to add a comment. Click here to login immediately.
Sign up with
Google
