Emergency Responders Deployed to South China provinces Xinjiang, Hubai as Floods Killed 22, Displaced Thousands

Jun 21, 2016 03:51 PM EDT

Rainstorms Cause Floods In Provinces Of China

(Photo : Hu Guolin/Getty Images) Citizens walk in flood caused by rainstorms on June 15, 2016 in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province of China. Heavy rainstorms continued to fall in many parts of China causing floods in Hunan, Henan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Guangdong and other places these days.

China's disaster relief authorities have been deployed to the provinces of Hubei and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region due to the floods that killed 22 and displaced more than 140,000 citizens.

According to Xinhua, the National Commission for Disaster Relief and the Ministry of Civil Affairs have begun responding to the citizens of the two aforementioned provinces. The two areas are ranked with the level-four emergency status. Different teams have also been deployed to carry out the relief operations work.

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Heavy rains and floods in the past days caused 22 deaths and has left 16 others missing. Six deaths were recorded in Hubei while Xinjiang reportedly has three casualties. The other deaths occurred in the other affected provinces. 15 people are missing in the Hubei Province while one person is still being searched for in the other aforementioned affected province. Around 140,000 have been displaced and relocated.

Authorities have provided the people in Hubei with 1,000 tents and 1,000 folding beds. Hubei Provincial officials have also deployed four work teams to guide the disaster relief efforts. As for Xinjiang, two work teams have been sent to the areas affected and allocated a total of $142,000 for food and drinking water as well as tents.

In Hubei, at least 2,400 houses and 20,900 hectares of crops were destroyed due to the disaster. It is believed that the damaged properties and crops amount to a total of $407.9 million.

A total of 3.7 million residents in China have been affected due to the floods and heavy rains. Six more provinces were hit the hardest during the heavy rainfall, and they have been identified as Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Yunnan, Zhejiang and Anhui.

China has been hit by natural disasters in the past most of the time by earthquakes and floods. Flooding is an annual problem in the country due to poor drainage infrastructure and the increase of urban life extension.

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