Landslides in southern China injured at least six people and trapped others, state media reported Sunday, as the region braced for severe floods “seen around once a century”.
Since Thursday, Torrential downpours across large swathes of Guangdong province have swollen rivers in the Pearl River Delta and triggered deluges in mountainous areas.
State broadcaster CCTV said Sunday that rains had sparked landslides affecting six villages in the northern Guangdong town of Jiangwan, “causing people to become trapped”.
CCTV photographs showed waterfront homes destroyed by a wall of brown mud and people in fluorescent-colored ponchos sheltering in a soaked public sports court.
No deaths were immediately reported, and the total number of trapped people was not specified. But CCTV said six people who were “trapped and injured” in the landslides had been airlifted to the nearby city of Shaoguan.
