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China: Flood: 2015/08/17 Country Information on DRR

Period 2015/08/17
Country or District China
Event Type Flood
Outline Storms have affected southwest China. In Sichuan Province, six people were dead and more than 50,000 affected in Sichuan Province.
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Xinhua 2015/08/18
Eight people died and 18 others are missing after heavy rain in southwest China\'s Sichuan Province since Sunday.

Xinhua 2015/08/18
The storms also affected 52,800 people from 10 other cities, districts and counties in Sichuan, resulting in direct economic losses of 59 million yuan (about 9.2 million U.S. dollars). Floods have also left four people missing, three injured, and forced 282 to be evacuated in Zhenxiong County in Yunnan Province.