Saturday, June 11, 2011

Chinese Calamity: Rain, floods take their toll in central China!

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English.news.cn   2011-06-10 11:36:41.

Dark cloud come down on the city in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, June 9, 2011. Heavy rainfall hit Wuhan Thursday night, causing waterlogging and power interruption in some areas of the city. (Xinhua).

BEIJING, June 10 (Xinhua) -- A new round of rain and floods battered China Thursday night and Friday, killing 35 people in central China's Hubei and Hunan provinces.
Torrential rains triggered floods and landslides that toppled homes and destroyed river embankments in Hubei's city of Xianning, killing 20 people and leaving five others missing, a spokesman with the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said.
Meanwhile, nearly 100,000 people were stranded by floods in three of Xianning's counties, including Tongcheng, Chibi and Chongyang, the spokesman said.
I wonder whether these are natural disasters or climate change induced calamities!
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