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Zhanjiang Hit by Worst Downpour in 200 Years
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Typhoon Pabuk has wreaked havoc in Zhanjiang, a coastal city of South China, bringing in the heaviest showers in two centuries.

Heavy rainfall has affected 1.17 million people in Zhanjiang and the cities of Maoming and Meizhou, causing economic losses of 1.34 billion yuan (US$176 million), Xinhua reported yesterday.

Floods have damaged a long stretch of the Zhanjiang-Leizhou Highway and the Guangdong-Hainan Railway, forcing the cancellation of a number of trains.

The Tangjia Township in Leizhou has been the worst hit, receiving 739 mm of rainfall in 24 hours, the heaviest in 200 years.

Intermittent showers pushed up water levels to record highs in two dams in Leizhou yesterday. The water levels in five Zhanjiang reservoirs have crossed the danger mark.

Water in the Dawan reservoir was threatening to overflow, forcing relief workers to dig channels to bring the level down during the weekend.

Shipping services in the Qiongzhou Strait between Guangdong and Hainan were suspended for more than 10 hours before being resumed yesterday morning.

Despite the grim situation, no deaths or missing cases were reported as of yesterday, said Chen Xiangsheng, director of the news office of Zhanjiang municipal government.

"Mudslides have damaged and blocked the Zhanjiang section of the Guangdong-Hainan Railway, and it's not certain when the line can be reopened," Chen said. The Guangdong-Hainan Railway is China's first cross-sea line. It connects Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong, with Haikou, capital of the island province of Hainan.

More than 700 workers are trying their best to clear and repair the tracks.

Shaanxi devastated

At least 25 people were killed in the devastation caused by torrential rains in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province in the past four days, raising the total death toll to 48.

Twenty-three people were killed in Shangluo city on August 1, local flood control authorities said. At least 65 people are still missing in the province. Of the missing 28 were washed away in floods in Shangluo last month. The others were swept away in central and southern Shaanxi, provincial flood control officials said.

Local government in southwest China's Yunnan Province said on Monday that eight people were killed and one is missing after flash floods triggered by rainstorms hit the Yuanjiang Hani-Yi-Dai Autonomous County Saturday night and Sunday.

In east China's Shandong Province, six people were killed when a rainstorm swept over Qingdao and Rizhao cities over the weekend.

In southwest China's Sichuan Province, a mud and rock flow hit an under-construction hydropower station in Ya'an city around midnight on Friday and killed at least 10 people.

Two persons are still missing, and about 150 soldiers and police officers are searching for them.

Heavy and continuous showers have caused more than half of the large and medium sized reservoirs in East China's Shandong Province to overflow, local authorities said yesterday.

Services on the South Xinjiang Railway in Northwest China have been suspended because winds of up to 117 km an hour have been sweeping across the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Across the country, 1,279 people have died and 239 are missing due to natural disasters in south, northwest and east China during the first seven months of the year, according to Ministry of Civil Affairs figures released last week.

(China Daily, Xinhua News Agency August 13, 2007)

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