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14-08-2021, 07:31 AM
UPDATED AUG 13, 2021, 2:31 PM
BEIJING (AFP, REUTERS) - At least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China’s Hubei province, authorities said on Friday (Aug 13)
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China has been battered by unprecedented rains in recent months, extreme weather that experts say is increasingly common due to global warming.
In Hubei, torrential rains caused power cuts and landslides, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people
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Yicheng ...... saw a record 480mm of rain on Thursday. Rescuers carried people to safety on frontloader diggers.
“Yesterday the water levels rose to about two to three metres. My neighbour’s house was completely destroyed,” a resident from one of the worst affected areas in the city of Suizhou told local media. “We haven’t seen so much rain in 20 or 30 years.”
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China regularly experiences flooding during its wet summer months, but the authorities have warned that extreme weather is now becoming more frequent as a result of climate change.
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More than 300 people were killed in central China's Henan province last month after record downpours dumped a year's worth of rain on a city in three days.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-a...uts-floods
BEIJING (AFP, REUTERS) - At least 21 people died as heavy downpours struck central China’s Hubei province, authorities said on Friday (Aug 13)
......
China has been battered by unprecedented rains in recent months, extreme weather that experts say is increasingly common due to global warming.
In Hubei, torrential rains caused power cuts and landslides, destroying hundreds of homes and forcing the evacuation of nearly 6,000 people
......
Yicheng ...... saw a record 480mm of rain on Thursday. Rescuers carried people to safety on frontloader diggers.
“Yesterday the water levels rose to about two to three metres. My neighbour’s house was completely destroyed,” a resident from one of the worst affected areas in the city of Suizhou told local media. “We haven’t seen so much rain in 20 or 30 years.”
......
China regularly experiences flooding during its wet summer months, but the authorities have warned that extreme weather is now becoming more frequent as a result of climate change.
......
More than 300 people were killed in central China's Henan province last month after record downpours dumped a year's worth of rain on a city in three days.
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-a...uts-floods
