Beijing, Aug 13 (EFE).- At least four people died and 14 are missing after a landslide hit a town located in the northwestern Chinese city of Xi’an, reports the local press.
The landslide occurred Friday night in Xi’an’s Chang’an district shortly after heavy rains and floods hit Shaanxi province.
Two houses in Chang’an were completely leveled, and nearby roads, bridges, power supplies and other infrastructure were damaged, the Global Times reported today, leaving local residents virtually cut off from the outside world.
The newspaper reports that four people had been confirmed dead as of Sunday morning, while another 14 remain missing.
A detachment from the Shaanxi police force has deployed more than 100 units to the affected area to participate in search and rescue operations for missing persons.
So far, 81 residents and 11 vehicles have been moved to safety as emergency workers comb a 65-kilometre-long area along a nearby river for the missing.
The rains have also affected cities like Nanning, in the south, or the northeast of Jilin this weekend.
In 2021 and 2022, the summers had already been marked by rainfall of an unprecedented intensity in decades in the center of the country, with more than 300 deaths, and by a persistent drought in areas further south. EFE
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