At least 4 people Passed and 48 more are still missing After heavy rains last week in Jinyang County in central China’s Sichuan province, the official China Daily reported today.
Despite the storms reaching the region on the 21st, no information has emerged to date. A senior provincial official stated that the rains caused flooding in the area where the highway construction was made, and said: Five people related to these studies were arrested for failing to report the incident or giving false information. deliberately. According to the researches, it was stated that there were 201 people in the construction area when the flood started, and 149 of them escaped unharmed.
While the police continue to investigate the incident, the search for the missing persons continues.
China has recorded heavy rains in various parts of the country in recent days; Provinces such as Jilin (northeast) activated the second-highest level on the four-category alert scale, while other provinces such as Liaoning, Shandong, Shanghai, Fujian also activated. Guangxi, Yunnan and Tibet do the same with the third.
At the beginning of August, China was hit by typhoon Doksuri, which killed at least 33 people in Beijing and produced an unprecedented amount of rain in 140 years. In 2021 and 2022, summers in China were marked by decades of unprecedented heavy rainfall in the center of the country, with more than 300 deaths, and persistent drought in regions further south.