Flash floods kill 7, leaves child missing in northwestern China
Flash floods triggered by heavy downpours have claimed seven lives and left a child missing in China’s northwestern province of Shaanxi, officials say.
Local officials said Wednesday that heavy rain caused two rivers to overflow their banks in Ansai County of the Yan’an city on Monday evening, inundating a major provincial highway and devouring five cars.
It went on to say that over 400 people have been involved in a search and rescue mission over the last two days, adding that rescue workers are trying to find the five-year-old child.
According to local police, passengers of two of the drowned vehicles managed to escape the raging floods, but people in the three other cars lost their lives at the scene.
They added that the bodies of the dead were pulled from a rushing river on Tuesday morning and the five swept-away vehicles have been salvaged from the waterway.
“I was driving from Yan’an to Zhidan. At about a quarter past 20:00, I ran into the flood here. The floodwater rushed to the road, and it was over one meter deep. At that time, the car floated like a boat and rocked back and forth,” said a survivor.
Back in April, flash floods, caused by heavy rain, also killed at least 24 people and left 72 others missing in the country’s northern province of Hebei.
Also in July, nearly 90 people died in a similar natural disaster in the provinces of Hebei and Henan, in central China.
The country’s worst flooding in recent history happened in 1998, when at least 4,150 people lost their lives, most of them along the Yangtze River.
Flooding is common in China in the rainy summer season.
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