China
21:44, 11-Jul-2017
Mountain collapses due to heavy rain in SW China
[]
Share
Copied
Mobile phone video footage recently captured the dramatic moment that part of a mountain collapsed in Wanlan Village, Zhenfeng County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, due to continuous downpours.
During an inspection at noon, monitoring staff noticed a five-meter-wide, 20-meter-deep crack in the mountainside, and blocked off nearby roads immediately. Approximately five minutes later, the collapse happened. No casualties were reported.
Frequent rainfall and heavy storms in southern China have resulted in widespread deadly flooding and landslides. Huge swathes of land are now underwater, damaging crops and forcing hundreds of thousands of people evacuated.
Overall, 56 people have reportedly been killed and 22 remain missing across central and southern China.
The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs confirmed that 11 provinces have been ravaged by flooding since June 29. Landslides and hailstorms left 27,000 homes destroyed and 33,000 damaged in the provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Chongqing Municipality, and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.