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At least 60 dead or missing as new floods hit western China
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 13 - 08 - 2010


At least 33 people died and 27 were missing after
floods and landslides hit several areas of western China, local
officials and state media said Friday, according to dpa.
Thousands of people were cut off by floodwater since Thursday in
the Longnan area of Gansu province, where 24 people died and 19 were
missing by Friday afternoon, the local government said.
Four people died and eight were missing in Gansu's Tianshui
county, while five died and 500 were trapped in the Mianzhu area of
neighbouring Sichuan province, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said.
A total of 12,000 people were evacuated in Gansu's Tianshui and
Longnan areas, where up to 4,000 homes were destroyed and 6,000
damaged, the ministry said.
A later report by the official Xinhua news agency said more than
3,000 people were still trapped by floods in the two areas, after
rescue workers had evacuated 10,604 residents.
Another 4,600 people were evacuated and 4,800 homes destroyed in
the Weinan area of Shaanxi province, which borders both Gansu and
Sichuan, the agency said.
Floods and massive mudslides killed at least 1,156 people and left
nearly 600 missing in Gansu's Zhouqu county earlier this week.
Meteorologists have forecast more heavy rain in Zhouqu and other
areas of Gansu in the next few days.
The agency earlier quoted a geologist as saying logging of the
steep mountainsides surrounding the Bailong river in Zhouqu was a
major cause of the mudslides.
"A lingering drought lasting almost nine months in some local
areas, and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that might have loosened the
mountainside and caused some cracks, are also reasons behind the
devastating mudslides," government geologist Tao Qingfa said.
Mudslides could be more devastating than floods because they moved
rapidly and swept up an increasing load of trees, rubble and even
cars, Tao told the agency.
"They move so fast that there is hardly any time left for
evacuation," he said.
Thousands of troops and civilians have concentrated on relief work
in Zhouqu since Wednesday, holding little hope of finding any more
survivors following the huge mudflows that razed one village,
devastated two others and damaged apartment blocks in the county town
on Sunday.


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