{"id":7072,"date":"2010-06-19T17:18:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T14:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2010-06-21T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T12:54:13","slug":"dead-missing-in-china-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/dead-missing-in-china-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 136 dead or missing in China floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/china-flood-dead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7073\" title=\"At least 136 dead or missing in China floods\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/china-flood-dead-280x197.jpg\" alt=\"At least 136 dead or missing in China floods\" width=\"280\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/china-flood-dead-280x197.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/china-flood-dead.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Floods and landslides across southern China have killed at least 88 people and left 48 missing in a week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Torrential downpours triggered flash floods, inundated crops, disrupted traffic and telecommunications, forcing the evacuation of 757,000 people, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from flooding this week in southern China rose to 90 Saturday, and 1.4 million people were evacuated as the inundated region prepared for more heavy storms.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty people were also missing in nine provinces and regions across China&#8217;s south, the state flood control office said. Water levels have surged passed safe levels in dozens of rivers, including the Pearl River in the heart of China&#8217;s manufacturing region.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8 a.m. Saturday, 5.5 million people had been affected by flooding, the office said.<\/p>\n<p>Its deputy director said more than 1.4 million residents had been moved from low-lying areas since Thursday, the China Daily newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>The National Meteorological Center warned of heavy rains until Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Strong rainstorms have collapsed reservoirs, overflowed rivers, caused landslides and power outages, and damaged highways, the disaster relief agency website said.<\/p>\n<p>China Daily reported that nine local officials in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region had been punished for dereliction of duty in flood work, including a reservoir monitor who was caught playing poker.<\/p>\n<p>China&#8217;s rainy season, which began in May, follows the worst drought in a century for the southern Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi regions. Drought affected 61 million people, leaving millions without drinking water and 12 million acres (5 million hectares) barren since last year.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 7)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China flood 136 dead : Floods and landslides across southern China have killed at least 88 people and left 48 missing in a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,118,14],"tags":[2381,9911,9912,9915,9917,9913],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-china","tag-china-floods","tag-china-floods-dead","tag-deads-china-floods","tag-ministry-of-civil-affairs","tag-national-meteorological-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}