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China issues highest-level rainstorm warning after fatal Guangdong floods<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n
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More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong province in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe flooding that state media said could be of the sort only \u201cseen around once a century\u201d.<\/p>\n

The megacity of Shenzhen was among the areas experiencing \u201cheavy to very heavy downpours\u201d on Tuesday, the city\u2019s meteorological observatory said, adding the risk of flash floods was \u201cvery high\u201d.<\/p>\n

It later downgraded its weather warning as the storms weakened, but urged residents to remain vigilant against disasters.<\/p>\n

Images from Qingyuan \u2014 a city in northern Guangdong that is part of the low-lying Pearl River Delta \u2014 showed a building almost completely submerged in a flooded park next to a river.<\/p>\n

Official media reported Sunday that more than 45,000 people had been evacuated from Qingyuan, which straddles the Bei River tributary.<\/p>\n

State news agency Xinhua said 110,000 residents across Guangdong had been relocated since the downpours started over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The floods have claimed the lives of four people, according to state media.<\/p>\n

Engulfed lampposts<\/strong><\/p>\n

An AFP team in Qingyuan saw the Bei River running much higher than its usual level on Tuesday evening, with the water almost completely engulfing lampposts on a pedestrianised bank that had been closed to the public.<\/p>\n

The rain stopped in the afternoon and the flood water fell slightly, allowing curious onlookers to come and look over the swollen banks.<\/p>\n

Li Yan, 52, said he was more concerned about people living down the river than about the continued rainfall forecast for the next few days.<\/p>\n

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GUANGZHOU (Xinhua\/Lu Hanxin) China issues highest-level rainstorm warning after fatal Guangdong floods More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday. Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong province in recent days, swelling rivers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[130,288,1001,34364,34363,4847,34365],"class_list":["post-67562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-china","tag-extreme-weather","tag-flooding","tag-guangdong","tag-ludovic-ehret","tag-rain","tag-rainstorms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67563,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67562\/revisions\/67563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}