Floods And Hail Affect 220,000 People In China
Ankit Gupta - All Headline News Staff Writer Beijing, China (AHN) - Three people were killed and over 220,000 others affected as incessant rains led to flooding in Anhui province as Eastern China prepared to face the fifth typhoon of the year. According to a spokesman for the Eastern Anhui provincial disaster in Hefei, two people were killed by lightning when heavy rains hit Chaohu City and a third person died the same way in Lu'an city in the last three days. Floods and hail have affected over 41,000 acres of croplands in Anhui and brought about losses of nearly 93 million yuan ($11.6 million USD). China has been suffering torrential rain and heavy floods accompanying tropical storm Bilis, which have killed 612 people and left 208 others missing in the eastern and southern provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, the national natural disaster reduction committee said. More than three million people have been relocated to safer places. Meanwhile, the country is preparing for its fifth tropical storm, Kaemi, this year. Typhoon Kaemi is expected to arrive in Fujian province, East China, adding to the misery of the local people who are yet to recover from tropical storm Bilis.
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