The Xinhua news agency reported on Thursday at 05:30 (Wednesday, 21:20 GMT) that ’36 people lost their lives and 30 people were injured’, stressing that the lives of the injured are not in danger.
Twenty vehicles were ‘caught’ in the derailment on a section of highway between Meizhou City and Dabu County in Guangdong Province at around 02:10 on Wednesday (18:10 GMT Tuesday), in which 54 people were involved. total, reported Xinhua.
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State broadcaster CCTV said the outburst was a ‘natural geological disaster’, which occurred ‘under the impact of persistent heavy rains’. Huge downpours have recently fallen in the industrial province of Guangdong, which has Canton as its capital, creating serious floods and landslides.
Over the past few days, the torrential rains have been much heavier than normal for this time of the year just before the onset of the monsoon season. “Intensification of climate change” increases the probability of “heavy rains that usually occur only in the summer months”, said Yin Zhijie, in charge of hydrological forecasts at the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources, on the national radio station last month.
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