The week-long flooding that has swept across southern parts of China has now killed at least 25 people, with a further 2 people still missing.
China’s National Commission for Disaster Reduction yesterday said that the flooding had forced 239,000 people to evacuate and that 116,000 people were now in urgent need of basic living necessities.
10 people died in Guizhou province and 9 in Chongqing. 3 of the deaths occurred in Sichuan province, and another 3 in Guangxi.
PHOTO via Reuters: Vehicles stuck at a flooded intersection in Guizhou, China pic.twitter.com/QCrSPeqpGS
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#InPictures: Heavy #rainfall hits #Chongqing in southwest China. http://t.co/5xRaolFqse pic.twitter.com/dQdpaOuowP
— China.org.cn (@chinaorgcn) June 5, 2014
Bus driver & passengers in Chongqing on Tue waited for help on top of the vehicle as roads blocked by rain & floods pic.twitter.com/DgwVjC1HSr
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) June 4, 2014
Severe weather has now also struck in the north of the country, with some flooding seen in northern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin, as well as the Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Some of Russia’s Siberian regions that border Mongolia have recently experienced severe flooding where as many as 10,000 people were displaced since floods first struck at the end of May 2014.
