At least 10 killed, 3 missing in central China flooding

BEIJING, 10 June 2022, (TON): At least 10 people have been killed and three are missing in flooding in the central Chinese province of Hunan.

The News Agency said “storms have pummeled the province since the beginning of the month, with some monitoring stations reporting historic levels of rainfall.”

It added that around 1.8 million people have been affected in the largely rural, mountainous province 286,000 of whom have been evacuated to safety while more than 2,700 houses have been damaged or collapsed entirely.

China regularly experiences flooding during the summer months, most frequently in central and southern areas that tend to receive the most rainfall.

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