Extreme Weather - China, Province of Hunan, [Central regions]

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Photo taken on May 10, 2014 shows flood in Wawutang Township of Suining County, central China's Hunan Province. Heavy rains started to hit Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in one township hitting 186 mm by noon. One person was killed in a rain-triggered landslide while flooding has forced the relocation of another 10,000 residents in Suining. [Xinhua]

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Extreme Weather

China

Province of Hunan, [Central regions]

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Extreme Weather in China on Saturday, 10 May, 2014 at 13:42 (01:42 PM) UTC.

Description One person was killed in a rain-triggered landslide while flooding has forced the relocation of another 10,000 residents in a county in central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said Saturday. Heavy rains started to hit Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in one township hitting 186 mm by noon, the office of the county flood control headquarters said in a statement. The rainstorms disrupted traffic, power and telecommunications in 10 townships. One villager in Jinwutang Township was killed in a landslide. A total of 112,000 residents were affected and 10,000 have been evacuated, it said. Also on Saturday, a rainstorm-triggered flash flood tore down 14 houses and two bridges, damaged flood-control dikes and inundated a hydropower generation plant in Fugong County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said. A total of 264 people in risk-prone areas have been relocated to safe places, the county publicity department said. Earlier the county was battered by rains on Thursday and Friday.

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One dead, 10,000 relocated in C China rainstorms

English.news.cn
2014-05-10 19:05:17

Photo taken on May 10, 2014 shows flooded farmland in Wawutang Township of Suining County, central China's Hunan Province. Heavy rains started to hit Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in one township hitting 186 mm by noon. One person was killed in a rain-triggered landslide while flooding has forced the relocation of another 10,000 residents in Suining. (Xinhua)

CHANGSHA, May 10 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed in a rain-triggered landslide while flooding has forced the relocation of another 10,000 residents in a county in central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said Saturday.
Heavy rains started to hit Suining County at 3 a.m. Saturday, with precipitation in one township hitting 186 mm by noon, the office of the county flood control headquarters said in a statement.
The rainstorms disrupted traffic, power and telecommunications in 10 townships. One villager in Jinwutang Township was killed in a landslide.
A total of 112,000 residents were affected and 10,000 have been evacuated, it said.
Also on Saturday, a rainstorm-triggered flash flood tore down 14 houses and two bridges, damaged flood-control dikes and inundated a hydropower generation plant in Fugong County in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local authorities said.
A total of 264 people in risk-prone areas have been relocated to safe places, the county publicity department said.
Earlier the county was battered by rains on Thursday and Friday.

Editor: Mengjie

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The Nanfang.

Rain to Continue as Shenzhen Flood Disaster to Cost RMB 80 Million

Charles Liu charlesliu@thenanfang.com
Posted: 05/13/2014 3:12 pm

Despite a brief respite from the storm yesterday, the forecast calls for more rain to fall on the Pearl River Delta for an additional seven days as Shenzhen tries to deal with the aftermath of its flooding disaster.
As a direct result of the torrential rain that fell on Southern China from May 8-12, Shenzhen has suffered an economic loss of more than RMB 80 million with a total of 25,531 residents affected by the flooding, reports Yangcheng Evening News.
Furthermore, it is reported a total of 2,986 people have been relocated, 10 houses have collapsed, and some 11.97 thousand square kilometers of crops have been destroyed.
Relief efforts to aid disaster victims are already underway.
Two Shenzhen storm disaster areas have seen residents rescued from potentially dangerous flooding.

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