Flood kills 29, brings fear of pollution in NE China
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STATISTICS FROM CENTRAL AUTHORITIES
Jilin is the latest province to be hit by fatal floods that have left 928 people dead and 477 missing as of 9 a.m. Wednesday, according to China's flood control and drought relief headquarters.
Rainstorms have lashed a dozen provinces this summer, including Hubei,Liaoning, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, Jilin, and Anhui, triggering floods and landslides.
But with the water flow rate into the Three Gorges Dam dropping below 45,000 cubic meters per second by midday Thursday, more than 20,000 evacuated people in Wuhan began to return home and shipping services through the Three Gorges resumed.
Floods had affected a total of 134 million people in 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, resulting in direct economic losses of 176.5 billion yuan (26.04 billion U.S. dollars), said the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.
A total of 875,000 homes had collapsed, 9.61 million people had been evacuated and 8.76 million hectares of crops were affected by floods nationwide, according to the headquarters.
