SW China's Sichuan activates top flood emergency response
12:07 UTC+8, 2020-08-18
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Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Tuesday activated its highest-level flood-control response for the first time on record.
12:07 UTC+8, 2020-08-18
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Rescuers evacuate an old woman to a safe place in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on August 17, 2020.
Southwest China's Sichuan Province on Tuesday activated its highest-level flood-control response for the first time on record, as rain-induced floods ravaged parts of the province.
The province's flood control and drought relief headquarters raised the response to Level I, the highest in the four-tier emergency response system, at 5am on Tuesday.
The Ya'an section of the Qingyi River was hit by one of the major floods in a hundred years, while water levels in the entire Qingyi River basin, as well as the lower reaches of Dadu River and Minjiang River are expected to exceed warning levels.
Source: Xinhua
Editor: Wang Qingchu
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