Torrential rain last week affected more than two million people in several southern Chinese provinces, according to local authorities. More than 13,000 residents in a southwestern Chinese prefecture have been evacuated as rainstorms lashed the area on Monday, Xinhua quoted local authorities as saying. Authorities in the Kaikou township in Qiannan prefecture of Guizhou province relocated to safety more than 3,000 residents who were trapped by flooding. Meanwhile, about 10,000 residents in Pingtang county of Qiannan prefecture were evacuated as one third of the county seat have been submerged by flood waters of up to one meter deep. The rainstorms also have caused power outages and landslides and damaged roads and thousands of homes. Local civil affairs authorities have sent bottled water, food and tents to the flood-ravaged regions and flood relief work is ongoing. The latest round of rainstorms that started from last Wednesday in Guizhou had affected 1.1 million residents in 44 counties and left 11 dead and three missing as of Monday afternoon. Torrential rain last week affected another 750,000 people in Hunan province, according the provincial flood control and prevention headquarters. Heavy rain have poured on Hunan since last Wednesday. A total of 175 counties and townships in the province have been affected, leaving 410 houses collapsed and inundating 21,100 hectares of cropland.
