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| A police officer carries two children to safety after a village is flooded in Shanwei city, South China's Guangdong province, on May 9. (Photo/Xinhua) |
The urban management bureau in Changsha said about 44 sewage covers were carried away in the flooding on Wednesday, posing a threat to people's lives, and all were replaced on Thursday.
Zhou Gang, director of the urban management bureau in Changsha's Tianxin district, said protective screening was installed in the sewage system to prevent people from falling in.
According to Hunan's civil affairs department, the heavy rain had caused a direct economic loss of 200 million yuan ($32.6 million) and damaged more than 27,200 hectares of farmland, affecting 420,000 people as of Thursday.
In Zhuhai, Guangdong province, Lyu Mengjie, a 5-year-old girl, was washed into a drainage channel by floodwaters due to the downpours on Wednesday. She was confirmed dead later that day.
Guangdong's civil affairs department said that as of Thursday, rainstorms had claimed one life and affected at least 27,000 people. More than 1,300 people had to be evacuated, and direct economic losses came to more than 11 million yuan.
While southern and central regions were hit by rainstorms, the National Meteorological Center weather report said most parts of North China, such as the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, are expected to be get light rain from Thursday to Sunday. Heavy rain in Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces will cool the heat of the past week.
Lushan, Sichuan province, which was struck by a magnitude-7 earthquake on April 20, will get light rainshowers on Thursday and be overcast on Friday and Saturday, according to the weather report.
S China city looks like Venice after heavy downpour
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