CHINA / National
Death toll from Bilis hits 204 nationwide
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-19 09:38
Six more people in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region were
confirmed dead on Tuesday, bringing the death toll from the rainstorms
and flooding triggered by the tropical storm Bilis across China to 204.
The death toll in Guangxi rose to 25 on Tuesday while nine others
remained missing, according to local officials.
In Guangdong, over 4,200 inmates have been rescued from two prisons in
Shaoguan City after floods left them stranded for about two days.
Twenty wardens managed to bring food and water to the inmates evacuated
from one jail on Saturday afternoon when some 30 inmates began to show
symptoms of gastroenteritis and skin diseases.
Two helicopters airdropped 2.1 tons of food, drinking water, medicine and
other supplies on Sunday afternoon after their previous attempts failed
due to bad weather conditions.
The two police helicopters used for the mission also flew 32 people from
the flood-stricken area to safety, including 22 children, four pregnant
women, six injured people and police officers.
The prison administration also rented boats to ship food from urban
regions to the flood-stranded inmates.
No imprisoned people were killed or suffered injuries during the two
separate operations.
In Guangxi 5.86 million people were affected and the economic losses
stood at about 1.21 billion yuan (more than 151 million U.S. dollars).
A total of 369,000 local residents have been relocated to safety after
some 17,700 houses were damaged in the disaster.
The local government has provided 5 million yuan (625,000 U.S. dollars)
for disaster relief and some 30 officials have been dispatched to help
flood-hit regions survive the calamity.
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