In the southwest region of China, floods and mudslides have ravaged village homes and part of a highway in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Saturday, killing about two people and leaving 17 others missing in two incidents, according to a report by the state media.
Additionally, the national TB broadcaster, CCTV had reported how in Kangding, a mountainous region in Sichuan’s western highlands, mudslides wrecked some homes in a village overnight, killing two persons, with 12 others still missing.
A bridge linking two tunnels on an expressway connecting Kangding and Ya’an had caved on Saturday morning, causing three vehicles to fall off the highway.
One of the six passengers were rescued, according to CCTV but it did not mention whether they had fallen off the bridge.
China has been assaulted by record rain and heatwaves this year, with scientists warning of more extreme weather powered by climate change.
In the last 10 years, Sichuan and Hunan in the south have suffered the most damage from storms and floods, resulting in cumulative economic losses that have surpassed 100 billion yuan ($14 billion) each, according to some estimates.
Beyond Hunan, the rains induced by China’s most powerful typhoon has affected about 1.15 million people so far this year and caused direct economic losses of about 6 billion yuan.
