SHIP Falls
A further four persons were missing in Foshan, a town in the province’s center, after a ship struck a gate in an affair that “may have been… due to the influence of flooding”, Xinhua reported on Tuesday, citing local officials.
The vehicle, which was carrying roughly 5,000 kilos of rolled material, smacked into a wall of the Jiujiang Bridge on Monday night, catapulting several of its 11 team members into the ocean.
Seven people were saved before the ship sank only before evening, according to Xinhua.
Brown scars on the side of a valley were visible in underwater shots from Guangdong, the result of floods that had occurred behind a village on the lenders of a bruised river.
In an effort to remove the wet dirt created by the storm, soldiers were seen operating excavators.
Extreme weather events are more frequent and intense because of human-emitted greenhouse gases, and China is the country’s biggest transmitter.
According to the state-run China National Radio, pieces of Guangdong have never experienced such intense flood since data began in 1954.
The Ministry of Water Resources ‘ key drainage forecaster, Yin Zhijie, reported to the journalist that “intensifying weather change” had increased the likelihood of the kind of heavy rains that are generally not seen until June or July.
Extreme weather events that overturn our traditional ways of thinking have occurred frequently in recent years, and the extremeness ( and ) abnormality… of floods and droughts have considerably increased,” he was reported as saying.
“TAKE Measures”
Guangdong is China’s producing homeland, home to around 127 million individuals.
Specialists in Shenzhen issued a red alert on Tuesday, prompting you to take precautions and stay away from unsafe areas like low-lying areas prone to flooding.
” Pay attention to heavy storms and resulting tragedies such as waterlogging, display storms, floods, mudslides, and earth caving in. “
According to authorities, Shenzhen is expected to experience heavy rainfall for the next two to three hours.
China has recently experienced intense storms, agonizing droughts, and record heat.
Due to this, officials are typically deployed quite quickly, reducing deaths significantly from previous years.
The local semi-autonomous area of Hong Kong experienced its heaviest rainfall in nearly 140 years while Shenzhen experienced the heaviest storms since records began in 1952.
According to the United Nations, Asia was the area most prone to disasters because of climate and temperature hazards in the world in 2023, with floods and storms being the main causes of casualties and financial damage.