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Torrential rain claims three lives
Three people were dead and six others missing as a result of heavy rains, which started on Tuesday, in the western part of Central China's Hunan Province, the provincial flood control headquarters announced on Wednesday afternoon.
The strong rain not only caused mountain torrents and landslides, which destroyed residential houses and flooded farmland, but also cut down transportation and communication in some areas, according to the headquarters. Among all the storm-affected areas, three cities, namely Huaihua, Yiyang and Xiangxi, suffered most serious damage. During a time span between 5 am and 11 am on Wednesday, in Huaihua alone, some 260 residential houses collapsed, leaving three people dead and six others missing, according to the statistics from the Hunan Provincial Civil Affairs Bureau. So far, three main reservoirs in the province have opened sluice gates to discharge floodwaters and governments at various levels have launched emergency disaster control operations to evacuate the residents from the flood-prone areas to safe places and resume flood-interrupted transportation and communications. The provincial Meteorological Station said on Wednesday that rainstorms lingered in the province Thursday, with the central and southern parts the main focus. |
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