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WORLD News ‘Hujan ribut membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 37 di Beijing
By Mardiana hamden | earthWatch REVIEW2012: 23, July, 2012
By Mardiana hamden | earthWatch REVIEW2012: 23, July, 2012
BEIJING (AP) - Pegawai telah meningkatkan angka kematian sekurang-kurangnya 37 dalam hujan lebat, yang paling berat mencecah Beijing dalam 6 dekad, dan puluhan kematian ribut yang lain telah dilaporkan di tempat lain di China.
Hujan malam Sabtu pokok terurai di Beijing dan kereta-kereta terperangkap dan bas air sedalam pinggang di sesetengah kawasan. Kenyataan daripada kerajaan bandar lewat kelmarin berkata 25 orang lemas, 6 terbunuh apabila rumah runtuh, 1 terkena kilat dan 5 kejutan elektrik oleh talian kuasa jatuh.
Akhbar rasmi China Daily melaporkan Isnin bahawa hujan dan banjir menyebabkan kerosakan sekurang-kurangnya 10 bilion yuan (US $ 1.6 billion), dengan 60,000 orang yang dipindahkan dari rumah mereka. Times Globe rasmi berkata hari Isnin bahawa ia adalah hujan lebat, yang paling berat di ibu negara dalam 61 tahun.
Ia adalah yang paling berat di atas rekod di daerah Fangshan di bandar barat daya, yang menerima 460 milimeter (18.4 inci) hujan Sabtu, mengikut biro cuaca. Agensi itu juga berkata pinggir bandar, Pinggu daerah mendapat 100,3 milimeter (4 inci) hujan dalam 1 jam.
Banjir kilat di Fangshan terkandas 104 pelajar sekolah rendah dan 9 orang guru di tapak latihan ketenteraan, lapor Xinhua. Mereka telah dibawa ke tempat selamat. Di tempat lain, 6 orang terbunuh dengan dicetuskan hujan tanah runtuh di wilayah Sichuan di barat, Xinhua News Agency berkata, pegawai bencana memetik.
4 orang mati di wilayah Shanxi di utara apabila trak mereka telah dihanyutkan oleh hujan sungai melimpah. Dalam jiran wilayah Shaanxi, media kerajaan berkata sekurang-kurangnya 8 orang mati dan 17 hilang selepas hujan lebat melanda.
China mengalami banjir dan berdozen-dozen kematian berkaitan ribut setiap musim panas semasa musim hujan, tetapi hujan lebat di Beijing agak kering adalah luar biasa. Langit ibu negeri adalah jelas Isnin, dengan trafik kembali normal. Lapangan terbang utama di bandar ini telah beroperasi dengan normal setelah beratus-ratus penerbangan dibatalkan atau ditangguhkan pada hujung minggu.
WORLD News ‘Rain storms kill at least 37 in Beijing’
BEIJING (AP) - Officials have raised the death toll to at least 37 in the heaviest rainstorm to hit Beijing in six decades, and dozens of other storm deaths have been reported elsewhere in China.
The rain Saturday night knocked down trees in Beijing and trapped cars and buses in waist-deep water in some areas. A statement from the city government late Sunday said 25 people drowned, six were killed when houses collapsed, one was hit by lightning and five were electrocuted by fallen power lines.
The official China Daily newspaper reported Monday that rain and flooding caused damages of at least 10 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), with 60,000 people evacuated from their homes. The official Globe Times said Monday that it was the heaviest rainstorm in the capital in 61 years.
It was the heaviest on record in Fangshan district in the southwest of the city, which received 460 millimeters (18.4 inches) of rain Saturday, according to the weather bureau. The agency also said suburban Pinggu district got 100.3 millimeters (4 inches) of rain in one hour.
A flash flood in Fangshan stranded 104 primary school students and nine teachers at a military training site, Xinhua said. They were taken to safety. Elsewhere, six people were killed by rain-triggered landslides in Sichuan province in the west, Xinhua News Agency said, citing disaster officials.
Four people died in Shanxi province in the north when their truck was swept away by a rain-swollen river. In neighboring Shaanxi province, state media said at least eight people died and 17 were missing after heavy rains hit.
China suffers flooding and dozens of storm-related deaths every summer during its rainy season, but such a heavy downpour in relatively dry Beijing is unusual. The capital's skies were clear Monday, with traffic back to normal. The city's main airport was operating normally after hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed over the weekend.
The Chinese capital was hit by the heaviest rain storm in six decades . . . ibu negeri China telah dilanda oleh ribut hujan yang paling berat dalam 6 dekad . . .
Heavy rains hit the province of Styria, in central Austria, causing floods, landslides and mudslides. One person has been killed, according to emergency services. (Hujan lebat melanda wilayah Styria, di tengah-tengah Austria, menyebabkan banjir, tanah runtuh dan runtuh lumpur. 1 orang telah dibunuh, menurut perkhidmatan kecemasan).
Disaster REVIEW 2012: Brazilian firefighters and police stepped up rescue efforts after the heaviest rainfall in 44 years caused mudslides and floods that swept away houses, killed at least 379 people and left 4,600 homeless in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo states. Bloomberg's Carlos Caminada reports. (TINJAUAN bencana 2012: Brazil anggota bomba dan polis meningkatkan usaha-usaha menyelamat selepas hujan paling berat dalam 44 tahun menyebabkan lumpur runtuh dan banjir yang hanyutkan rumah-rumah, membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 379 orang dan meninggalkan 4600 tidak berumah di Rio de Janeiro dan Sao Paulo negeri. laporan Bloomberg Carlos Caminada) (Source: Bloomberg)
Hujan paling berat dalam tempoh 60 tahun
di Beijing, 37 mati
Hujan dan banjir yang belum pernah berlaku kekacauan bilau pada malam Sabtu Beijing, dengan lebih daripada 3 kaki air naik di beberapa jalan-jalan. Hujan lebat yang paling berat dalam ibu negeri Cina dalam 61 tahun menyebabkan gangguan pelbagai ke tanah dan trafik udara. Lebih daripada 80,000 penumpang terkandas semalaman di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa ibu negeri Beijing sebagai ribut petir dan hujan membawa operasi terhenti, memaksa lebih daripada 530 pembatalan dan 50 kelewatan. Penerbangan menyambung semula pada pagi Ahad sebagai hujan reda.
Kerajaan bandar Beijing berkata pada microblog rasmi sekurang-kurangnya 37 orang telah mati dari hujan dan banjir, laporan Reuters. Kebanyakan mereka mati lemas, manakala 6 terbunuh oleh bumbung pecah. 5 mengalami kejutan elektrik maut dari talian kuasa dijatuhkan. Kilat maut juga dilaporkan.
Pihak berkuasa bandar telah mengesahkan 10 kematian setakat ini dari hujan dan banjir. Ada yang dibunuh oleh bumbung pecah, tetapi majoriti yang mengalami kejutan elektrik maut dari talian kuasa dijatuhkan. Kilat maut juga dilaporkan. Sebagai hujan lebat berterusan sepanjang malam, pihak berkuasa Beijing penduduk dipindahkan 14.500.
Kira-kira 7,000 pegawai polis telah dikerahkan untuk mengarahkan kelantangan yang tinggi jalan raya yang disebabkan oleh banjir. Kebanyakan jalan-jalan di bandar ini meneruskan corak lalu lintas biasa oleh pagi Ahad. Hujan yang paling berat telah direkodkan di daerah pinggir bandar Fangshan, ke atas 18 inci.
Menurut data yang diperolehi oleh 20 stesen meteorologi negeri di Beijing, bandar ini menerima lebih 6 inci pemendakan, tahap tertinggi yang dicatatkan sejak pemerhatian bermula pada tahun 1951.
10 kematian tambahan telah dilaporkan di wilayah lain, kebanyakannya di kawasan pergunungan di mana pihak berkuasa penduduk dipindahkan ke atas kebimbangan tanah runtuh yang mungkin. Hujan lebat di wilayah Sichuan menyebabkan tanah runtuh yang membunuh 6 orang, 4 lagi kematian dilaporkan di wilayah utara Shanxi apabila sebuah trak telah dihanyutkan oleh banjir sungai.
Flood water falls down a stairway as residents get out of the entrance to a subway station amid heavy rainfalls in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Air banjir jatuh ke bawah tangga sebagai penduduk keluar dari pintu masuk ke stesen kereta bawah tanah di tengah-tengah hujan lebat di Beijing, 21 Julai, 2012) (Reuters/Stringer)
A driver points to his car which has been stranded for half an hour on a flooded street amid heavy rainfalls in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Seorang pemandu tunjuk kepada keretanya yang telah terkandas selama setengah jam di atas jalan yang ditenggelami air di tengah-tengah hujan lebat di Beijing, 21 Julai, 2012) (Reuters/Stringer)
Residents look at a stranded car on a flooded street amid heavy rainfalls in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Penduduk melihat sebuah kereta yang terkandas di jalan banjir di tengah-tengah hujan lebat di Beijing, 21 Julai, 2012) (Reuters Stringer)
Paramilitary policemen (C) carry on rescue operation amid heavy rainfalls on a flooded street under the Guangqumen overpass in central Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Tentera polis (C) menjalankan operasi menyelamat di tengah-tengah hujan lebat di atas jalan yang banjir di bawah laluan atas Guangqumen di pusat bandar Beijing, 21 Julai, 2012) (Reuters/Stringer)
Workers pump flood water as a bus is stranded on a street amid heavy rainfalls in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Workers pump flood water as a bus is stranded on a street amid heavy rainfalls in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Reuters/Stringer) (Reuters/Stringer)
Rescuers and residents stand next to a stranded car which is being pulled up from a flooded street under the Guangqumen overpass amid heavy rainfall in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Penyelamat dan penduduk berdiri di sebelah kereta yang terkandas yang ditarik dari jalan yang banjir di bawah laluan atas yang Guangqumen di tengah-tengah hujan lebat di Beijing, 21 Julai, 2012) (Reuters/Stringer)
Rescuers and residents stand next to a stranded car which is being pulled up from a flooded street under the Guangqumen overpass amid heavy rainfall in Beijing, July 21, 2012 (Penyelamat dan penduduk berdiri di sebelah kereta yang terkandas yang ditarik dari jalan yang banjir di bawah laluan atas Guangqumen di tengah-tengah hujan lebat di Beijing, 21 Julai, 2012) (Reuters/Stringer)
Heaviest rains in 60 years in Beijing, 37 dead
Unprecedented rainfall and floods wreaked havoc in Beijing Saturday night, with over three feet of standing water on some streets. The heaviest downpour in the Chinese Capital in 61 years caused numerous disruptions to ground and air traffic. More than 80,000 passengers were stranded overnight at the Beijing Capital International Airport as thunderstorms and rain brought operations to a halt, forcing more than 530 cancellations and 50 delays. Flights resume on Sunday morning as rainfall subsided.
The Beijing city government says on its official microblog at least 37 people have died from the rains and flooding, reports Reuters. A majority drowned, while six were killed by broken roofs. Five suffered fatal electrocution from downed power lines. A fatal lightning strike was also reported.
City authorities have confirmed ten deaths so far from the rains and flooding. Some were killed by broken roofs, but a majority suffered fatal electrocution from downed power lines. A fatal lightning strike was also reported. As heavy rainfall continued throughout the night, Beijing authorities evacuated 14,500 residents.
Some 7,000 police officers were deployed to direct the high volume of road traffic caused by the flooding. Most of the city’s streets resumed normal traffic patterns by Sunday morning. The heaviest rainfall was recorded in the Fangshan suburban district, at upwards of 18 inches.
According to data obtained by 20 state meteorological stations in Beijing, the city received over six inches of precipitation, the highest recorded levels since observation began in 1951.
Ten additional deaths were reported in other provinces, mostly in mountainous areas where authorities evacuated residents over fears of possible landslides. Heavy rainfall in Sichuan province caused landslides that killed six; four more deaths were reported in the northern Shanxi province when a truck was washed away by river flooding.