China’s massive floods move east, battering communities along Yangtze River

After weeks of intense seasonal flooding in southwestern and central China, torrential rains have caused more floods along the Yangtze River, with nearly 300,000 people evacuated in the eastern provinces of Anhui and Jiangxi as homes have been destroyed, roads paralysed and many left stranded without food or electricity.More than 2,000 homes were damaged by the latest floodwaters, forcing the evacuation of 147,000 people by Tuesday in Anhui, after a week of heavy rainstorms on the country’s…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3092535/chinas-massive-floods-move-east-battering-communities-along