IANS | 17 Jul, 2019
More than 8.1 lakh people have been affected as heavy rain battered China's Guangxi region, officials said on Wednesday.
Rain
in the area began on Friday but the precipitation came to an end by
Wednesday evening. It affected a total of 816,523 people while two
deaths were also reported so far, Xinhua news agency quoted officials of
the local emergency management department as saying.
In the
floods and water-logging that hit 47 districts in nine cities, nearly
65,000 hectares of crops have been destroyed and the homes of nearly
2,000 families collapsed or were damaged, leading to a direct economic
loss of 1.4 billion Yuan (about $208 million).