At least 21 people are dead and six others missing after a flash flood and landslide following torrential rains in the outskirts of northwestern China’s Xi’an city
The natural disaster, which took place in a mountainside village on Friday, also caused blackouts affecting 900 households and damaged roads, bridges and communications infrastructure, according to the the Xi’an City Emergency Management Bureau. Parts of China have seen record high temperatures and deadly flooding in recent weeks, with experts linking extreme weather around the world to climate change.
Our village doesn’t have much income, the main is to run farm restaurants in the summer,” a second villager told Cover News. The disaster comes on the heels of major flooding on the other side of the country in northeastern China, which was battered by record rains from regional typhoons starting late last month. Flooding killed at least 29 people in Hebei province and 33 in the capital Beijing, according to local authorities.
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