China cities declare flood 'red alerts' as extreme weather threats surge

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Four cities along China's Yangtze river have declared top-level flood warnings over the past two days after torrential rain triggered landslides ...

Rescue workers evacuate with an inflatable boat students stranded by floodwaters at a school, amid heavy rainfall in Duchang county, Jiangxi province, China, Jul 8, 2020. SHANGHAI: Four cities along China's Yangtze river have declared top-level flood warnings over the past two days after torrential rain triggered landslides and inundated roads and farmland, with parts of the river threatening to burst its banks.

"In many parts of China, we have seen dramatic changes in precipitation in recent decades, and as a result, flooding." "The rainfall is high but it is not the highest," he said."The flooding is going to cause a lot more damage because of urbanisation and industrialisation, especially in low-lying places."

 

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