One dead, one missing in Chongqing torrent
By Tan Yingzi in Chongqing |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2020-07-02 14:38
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Landslides resulting from the rain blocked some highways in the municipality, which rests in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.
At 7:45 am on Thursday, the Bureau of Hydrology of the Changjiang Water Resources Commission issued a blue alert for flooding in the Wujiang River, the Three Gorges reservoir area and Chenglingji River.
The commission is a river basin authority dispatched by the Ministry of Water Resources to water in the Yangtze River Basin and other basins of southwestern China.
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