"Flooding kills 155, as 1 million flee
BEIJING — Unusually heavy seasonal flooding in China has killed at least 155 people and forced more than 1 million to flee as water in some areas reached the highest level in more than a decade, the government reported yesterday. Direct economic losses total $6.5 billion, with large swaths of the country’s southeast hit especially hard, according to the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. Virtually all of the country’s major rivers were swollen, while water levels in lakes along the mighty Yangtze River were higher than in 1998, when catastrophic flooding killed about 4,000 people (AP)."
And is a BURIED BRIEF on a SUNDAY!
Update:
"In China, 132 die in flooding, 46 are killed in mine blast" by Associated Press | June 21, 2010
Firefighters carried a man trapped in the floods yesterday in Xiushui, in central China’s Jiangxi province. (Associated Press)
BEIJING — Major rivers burst their banks in southern China, triggering massive floods that have killed 132 people and forced 860,000 to flee their homes, the government said yesterday. With dozens missing and more storms forecast, the death toll was expected to rise.
Wow, a MILLION REFUGEES just like THAT!
Today, at least 46 miners were killed when an explosion ripped through a coal mine in central China, state media reported. State broadcaster CCTV reported on its website many of the deaths were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning set off by the explosion.
Also see: Mining Miracle in China
More than 10 million people have been affected by floods since torrential rains began June 13, including those who have been injured, stranded, evacuated, or have suffered property losses, the Ministry of Water Resources said in a news release.
Then WHY is the Globe downplaying it?
China sustains major flooding annually along the Yangtze and other major rivers, but this year’s floods have been especially heavy, spreading across nine provinces and regions in the south and along the eastern coast.
The flooding follows the worst drought in a century for the southern provinces and regions of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi.
China had a drought? First I've read of it.
The drought left millions without drinking water and destroyed more than 12 million acres of crops.
But that wasn't considered newsworthy by the AmeriKan MSM -- until now?
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