Overview
- Authorities reported at least 10 deaths on Tuesday after days of torrential rain triggered floods and landslides across multiple provinces.
- Meteorologists said the rain belt spans more than 1,000 km and formed as moisture from the Bay of Bengal, the South China Sea, and the Pacific converged over southern China.
- The National Meteorological Centre forecast the heaviest rain to shift to the middle and lower Yangtze River from Wednesday, with continued high risk of flash floods and urban waterlogging.
- China’s flood-control headquarters activated a Level‑IV emergency response in Hunan and Guangxi, and cities such as Jingzhou in Hubei shut workplaces and classes as streets filled with knee‑deep water.
- Rescue teams kept searching in Guangxi after a pickup carrying 15 people plunged off a low bridge on Saturday, using sonar, boats, and drones to locate those still unaccounted for.