300 dead or missing as floods sweep through northern China
A man makes his way through a flooded street on a scooter in Beijing on July 20, 2016. Torrential rain lashing northern China in the past week has left nearly 300 people dead or missing and displaced hundreds of thousands, official media reported on Monday. PHOTO | AFP
As of Monday morning more than half a million people in the hardest-hit provinces of Henan and Hebei had been displaced, with 125,000 people in urgent need of basic assistance.
Locals accused authorities of failing to warn them of the impending deluge and trying to cover up the cause of the disaster.
Earlier this month heavy downpours wreaked havoc in central and southern China, flooding several major cities and causing over 200 deaths.
BEIJING
Torrential rain lashing northern China in the past week has left nearly 300 people dead or missing and displaced hundreds of thousands, official media reported on Monday.
