Sixteen individuals are lifeless and 36 others lacking after a flash flood hit Qinghai province in western China amid the continuing torrential rains, in response to Chinese language media studies.

Heavy and sudden downpours in Datong Hui and Tu Autonomous County of Qinghai province began late on Wednesday, inflicting flooding within the mountains and triggering landslides, in response to China‘s state broadcaster CCTV.

The flash floods affected an space with greater than 6,000 individuals and over 1,500 homes, CCTV stated.

The native authorities has despatched a rescue group of two,000 individuals and greater than 160 autos for catastrophe aid. Two individuals reported lacking earlier have been discovered and the seek for others is on, the state media stated in a web based report.

Emergency authorities described the scenario as a “mountain torrent” catastrophe, which ends from heavy squalls in mountainous areas. Water operating down the mountain can flip streams into raging rivers, catching individuals without warning.

China has been hit with a sequence of local weather crisis-induced excessive climate occasions with heavy rains resulting in flooding of historic scale in some areas together with heatwaves and droughts in others.

Extreme flooding in a number of areas in China over the previous couple of weeks has displaced virtually half 1,000,000 individuals and brought on damages of $250 million damages. The scenario has been described because the worst since record-keeping began 60 years in the past.

The federal government has solely blamed the local weather disaster for the back-to-back excessive climate occasions. The IPCC studies lately have included China among the many nations that may be hardest hit by international warming.

Floor air temperature has elevated up to now century throughout Asia, inflicting stronger, extra frequent, and longer heatwaves.

The warming temperatures additionally result in drought and might have an effect on the sample of rainfall. Like China, a number of areas in Asia are struggling by means of totally different extremities with floods and droughts changing into extra frequent.

Final week, seven individuals had been reported lifeless in an analogous mountain torrent in southwestern China‘s Sichuan province.

The continuing warmth, drought and flooding scenario has closely impacted the agriculture and electrical energy provide within the nation with many areas dealing with longer energy cuts and several other factories shut down.

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