Authorities in China’s southwestern Sichuan province have raised the flood emergency alert to the highest level for the first time on record as local rivers broke their banks and flooded the cities, sparking massive evacuations.
Continuous rainfall has caused the worst flooding in Sichuan in some 70 years. More than two dozen of the region’s major rivers overran their banks with muddy swelling waters flooding urban areas. The streets of Leshan – a major provincial city located at the confluence of two rivers – have been almost entirely submerged by water.
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