Floods in China: Worst in 50 years in Zhenba; over 10,000 evacuated in Hunan

Floods have hit China's central province of Hunan, with more than 10,000 people evacuated, as per officials on July 2.

Around 70 houses collapsed, over 2,000 homes were damaged, and farm fields were inundated. Authorities estimate that the losses have reached 575 million yuan, or $79 million, so far.

Meanwhile, Shaanxi province's Zhenba saw its worst flooding incident in 50 years. No deaths due to the floods have been reported so far.

In 2021, more than 300 people died in the central province of Henan. Record rainfall inundated the provincial capital of Zhengzhou on July 20 that year, turning streets into rushing rivers and flooding at least part of a subway line. China's worst floods in recent history were in 1998, when 4,150 people died, most of them along the Yangtze River.

(With PTI inputs)