Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege many areas of the country.
More than 30,000 soldiers, emergency workers and residents have stood watch over dikes on Wednesday near Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, as the city braced itself for floodwaters to arrive from two swollen rivers.
Rescuers have recovered bodies of three people who went missing in Monday's landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
China's flood control authorities said on Wednesday that floods this year had left 928 people dead and 477 missing all over China as of 9 a.m. July 28.
More than 30,000 soldiers, emergency workers and residents are on guard at dikes near Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, as the city on Wednesday braced for flood waters from two swollen rivers.
More than 30,000 people are reportedly trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China's Jilin Province after torrential downpours.
Workers are on standby Wednesday to open flood gates on the swollen Han River, the largest branch of the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei Province, to prevent the flooding of provincial capital Wuhan.
China's Three Gorges Dam on the swollen Yangtze River is experiencing another test as flood flows peaking at 56,000 cubic meters per second, the greatest peak flood of the year, arrived at the dam at 8 am Wednesday, engineers said.
A raging flood, a bridge breaking and his son screaming were all Hao Xingguo, a villager from Tantou town of Central China's Henan province, could remember about the weekend.
The influx to Three Gorges Dam rose to 51,000 cubic meters per second as of 2 pm on Tuesday. China Three Gorges Corp says the arrival of the second flood peak this year is due about 8 pm on July 28, with the highest inflow of floodwater at 56,000 cubic meters per second.
A rain-triggered landslide engulfed a pickup truck travelling on a road in southwest China's Yunnan Province Monday, sweeping the vehicle into a turbulent river and causing the deaths of the vehicle's six occupants.
Twenty-one people were missing after a rain-triggered landslide hit villages in Hanyuan county, Southwest China's Sichuan province on Tuesday morning, local officials said.
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