Rescuers were searching for 16 people missing after a landslide in the town of Luanzhen on Friday night, the Xinhua news agency said. Roads, bridges and power lines were damaged, it added.
Parts of China experience heavy rains and floods every summer, but this year’s have been unusually severe in some areas, while other regions are experiencing a drought that is affecting crops.
In addition, some train routes in Shenyang, the largest city in the northeast of the country, and in the surrounding province of Liaoning, were suspended on Saturday by heavy downpours from the remnants of Khanun, according to state television. Typhoon Khanun battered parts of Japan before weakening as it moved across the Korean Peninsula, en route to China.
Some 23,000 people were evacuated from the northeastern city of Shulan in Jilin province due to heavy rain, according to Xinhua. No personal injuries have been reported so far.
A total of 142 people died across the country from floods, landslides or mountain torrents in July, the Ministry of Emergency Management reported.
Last week, the capital Beijing and neighboring Hebei province suffered the worst rains in at least 140 years, authorities said.
The Hebei government on Friday raised the death toll from flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri this month to at least 29. The official death toll from the floods in Beijing rose to 33 this week. According to the government, the full restoration of power supply and other affected services could take up to three years.
FOUNTAIN: Associated Press
