Flooding in central China killed ten people ,missing three

• Flooding in the Chinese province of Hunan has killed at least 10 people and left three missing.
• 286,000 people have been evacuated to safety and more than 2,700 homes damaged or completely destroyed.
• Climate change is causing more violent tropical storms, resulting in greater flooding.

Flooding in the central China province of Hunan has killed at least ten people and left three more missing, as per state media.

As per the Chinese news agency, storms have pounded the province since the beginning of the month, with some monitoring stations reporting record rainfall amounts.

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Flooding occurs frequently in China during the summer months, especially in the central and southern regions, which receive the greatest rainfall.

In 1998, China’s greatest floods in recent memory killed over 2,000 people and ruined about 3 million dwellings, largely along the Yangtze, the country’s most powerful river.

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Climate change is causing more violent tropical storms around the world, resulting in greater flooding that endangers human lives, crops, and groundwater quality.