Heaviest rain in over 50 years in China leads to mass evacuations
The latest flooding in parts of southern and eastern China has caused losses of $392m and the evacuation of 77,000 people
11 July 2019 - 12:04
Beijing — The heaviest average rainfall to lash a swathe of southern and eastern China in more than half a century brought torrential rain and floods, destroying houses, damaging crops and forcing the evacuation of nearly 80,000 people, state media said.
Even more rain is expected, state television said on Thursday, after average rainfall in the affected areas this week was recorded as 51% higher than in the corresponding periods of previous years, and the largest since 1961...
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