Beijing: The death toll from floods triggered by rain in Central China has increased to 56 with five people to report lost and estimated officials totaling around $ 10 billion, government media reported on Friday.
Heavy rain, the toughest in 1,000 years, has affected around three million people in Henan Province and a total of 376,000 locals have been transferred to safe places, the Provincial Emergency Management Department said.
The death toll from heavy rains in the Central Henan Province has increased to 56, with five people reported missing, the Xinhua news agency issued by the State quoted the local authorities.
Rescue efforts including drainage operations are still ongoing in the road tunnel Jingguang in the capital of Zhengzhou Province, underpasses that are flooded where many vehicles are trapped since Tuesday, according to the Provincial Emergency Management Department.
The department said there were still a large number of water in the tunnel, where the victims had been reported.
The exact number of victims has not been confirmed.
Direct economic losses have reached 65.5 billion yuan ($ 10 billion), said China Daily quote quoted by the local government.
When the city of Zhengzhou, 12 million people hobbled back to normal, rescuers helped thousands of people arrested in flooding.
On Thursday, officials raced to evacuate patients because hospitals were flooded with rain storms.
The patients shifted to the hospital that escaped the anger of the flood.
Zhengzhou, meanwhile, reduced his emergency response because he continued to clean up after the awesome flood this week, but another part of Henan province roamed the heavier rainfall, after postparting South China based in Hong Kong.
Zhengzhou was hit by heavy rain a few days, causing flooding intensity not to be seen in decades.
More than 8,000 military personnel worked at 10 different hazard zones around the city, the Xinhua news agency reported.
Donation counters were established around the city to distribute important supplies after residents who were hit by panic buying supplies during the first days of flooding.
Meanwhile, the firefight crew traveled around the villages around it to help residents who had been injured or trapped and worked all day to drain the flooding roads.
The streets are converted into rushed rivers, washing people and vehicles and apartments.
Hundreds of cars were swept away in floods had accumulated in various parts of the city.
The death toll in Central China was up to 56, losses rose to $ 10 billion
