Floods Kill 6 as Heavy Rains Hit Central China
Heavy rains washed out roads, overturned houses and killed six people in hilly central China, bringing the nationwide death toll from summer floods to more than 100, state media reported Thursday.
More than 16 inches of rain fell around the city of Daye in Hubei province over eight days, flooding valleys, overflowing reservoirs, cutting off roads and downing telephone lines, the Beijing Evening News reported.
More than 2,700 houses and other buildings were damaged and 52,000 acres of farmland were inundated, the newspaper said. It did not provide details on how the six people died.
Hubei was one of the hardest hit provinces last year, when 4,150 people were killed in the worst flooding China had experienced in 44 years. So far this year, flooding has damaged 1.8 million acres of crops and killed 27 people in Hubei, the newspaper said.
Water levels where the Yangtze River snakes through the Hubei countryside have already risen above the flood-warning line in some areas, it said.
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