175 killed in bad weather
NZPA Peking Severe winds, hail and torrential rain have caused 175 deaths and injured 2200 people in recent weeks in a province in central China, said reports reching Peking yesterday.
A script of a Changsha radio report said that an exceptional change in weather brought successive windstorms and hailstorms in Hunan province last month.
According to the first report from provincial authorities, the storms had caused severe dajnage in 66 districts of the province, destroying or inflicting heavy damage on more than 40,000 homes and 100,000
hectares of cultivated land. The report said that according to weather forecasts, the bad weather could continue throughout this month, and added that the whole population was mobilised in readiness for further disasters.
Another provincial press report mentioned severe damage in the Sichuan province last month, also caused by severe windstorms and hail.
The report did not give any figures for the dead or injured, and merely said that serious losses in lives and goods had been recorded in about 100 districts in Sichuan, China’s most populated province.
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