{"id":324242,"date":"2021-08-13T21:47:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T18:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fresh-flooding-in-central-china-kills-another-21-people\/"},"modified":"2021-08-13T21:47:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T18:47:56","slug":"fresh-flooding-in-central-china-kills-another-21-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fresh-flooding-in-central-china-kills-another-21-people\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fresh flooding in central China kills another 21 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Fresh flooding in central China kills another 21 people<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 Flooding in central China continued to cause havoc in both cities and rural areas, with authorities saying Friday that another 21 people had been killed and another four were missing.<\/p>\n<p>Floodwaters rose to 11.4 feet in Hubei province\u2019s Liulin township following heavy rains that began Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The latest deaths add to the more than 300 people killed in flooding last month in Henan province just to the north. The vast majority of those victims were in Zhengzhou, Henan\u2019s provincial capital, where at least 292 died, including 14 who were tr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed when the city\u2019s subway system was inundated.<\/p>\n<p>The new Hubei floods have been relatively small in comparison, with just over 8,000 people affected, according to the official Xinhua <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> Agency.<\/p>\n<p>China regularly suffers seasonal flooding, but this year has been particularly severe with torrential rains reaching from the center of the country as far north as Beijing. The floods come on top of efforts to contain an outbreak of the delta variant of COVID-19 that has particularly affected Henan and the eastern province of Jiangsu.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s worst floods in recent years were in 1998, when more than 2,000 people were killed and almost 3 million homes were destroyed, mostly along China\u2019s mightiest river, the Yangtze.<\/p>\n<p>Direct losses from this summer\u2019s flooding are estimated at more than $14 billion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Flooding-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people push a van loaded with disaster relief supplies in Liulin Township of Suixian County in central China's Hubei Province, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19120220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Flooding-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Flooding-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Flooding-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>In this photo released by China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency, people push a van loaded with disaster relief supplies in Liulin Township of Suixian County in central China\u2019s Hubei Province, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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