Overview
- Flooding in Qinzhou in China’s Guangxi region forced the evacuation of more than 200 residents as streets and homes filled with fast-moving water.
- Qinzhou’s meteorological station reported over 270 millimeters of rain in 24 hours, setting the city’s highest April daily total on record.
- Rescue teams used inflatable boats to reach trapped people, with firefighters carrying elderly residents to safety and deploying 25 fire trucks and 150 personnel.
- Local authorities shut schools during the worst of the weather, and classes later resumed with traffic reported largely normal in most areas.
- National emergency bodies convened to guide the response, as Xinhua forecast 150 to 200 millimeters of rain in parts of Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Hunan, in what analysts call unusually intense pre-monsoon rainfall.