China, August 22: Rarely do we see such a massive evacuation of population as seen in China. At least four people were killed and more than 94,000 evacuated on Sunday from the flooded Dandong City in northeast China’s Liaoning Province after the Yalu river breached its banks.
Danger of a flooded Yalu River, a border river between China and North Korea still looms large as a new round of rainstorm is forecast to lash Dandong City, official media reports here said today.
More than 94,000 people in Dandong, Liaoning Province, by the Chinese side of the river have been evacuated, according to the city’s flood-control headquarters.
The local weather station forecast today morning that rains measuring up to 250 millimetres would hit the city in the next 24 hours, posing a threat to the flood control work.
—Agencies