BEIJING--Flooding, landslides and torrents of mud have killed 50 people in southern China and another 15 are missing after days of torrential rain, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said late on Saturday.
More than 17 million people spread across nine provinces have been affected by downpours since the start of July, the ministry said in a statement on its website.
Some 42,000 homes collapsed, and another 121,000 were damaged and hundreds of thousands of hectares of crops were spoilt or destroyed, with an early estimation of the cost of the rains as high as 8.9 billion yuan ($1.3 billion).
Among the dead were four miners killed by a gas explosion after heavy rain cut off power at their pit in southwestern Guizhou province, stopping ventilation equipment.
A wet start to the summer shows little sign of letting up. Nearly 400 people died after heavy rains in June, and storms are forecast to hit some badly affected areas again as early as the start of this week.
That could also put extra strain on weak river banks.
Along many rivers that feed into the Yangtze, China's longest river, water has risen over flood warning lines -- in one part of southwestern Chongqing municipality, by some 3 meters (10 ft), the official Xinhua news agency said.
和約
中国での土砂災害で50人が亡くなりました。1700万人の人が災害の影響を受け、約42000帯は崩壊しました。豪雨の影響は深刻な事態となっています。
感想
自然災害の恐さは計り知れないものだと思います。現地の人々が少しでも早く元気になってくれればと思います。
単語
affect 影響する
kill 殺す
estimation 見積もり
forecast 予報
agency 代理店
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