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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Storms in China: half a million evacuees


95 dead half a million evacuees and more than six million affected. It is the balance of the storm lashing various parts of China for four days. The torrential rains also affected the capital, Beijing (as not happened for six decades) and the neighboring province of Hebei, where rescuers are still working to find the missing and care for those affected by inunciones once refer the rains. "I've lost everything," says one man. "I have nothing, no food, no water, no where to be." The area of ​​northern China are not accustomed to heavy rainfall, more frequent in the south. In all seventeen of the 30 administrative divisions of China have suffered damage to infrastructure and telecommunications, some thirty thousand houses have collapsed and have been damaged twice.

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