China on Sunday allocated more emergency
supplies to Anhui Province in support of local flood control and
disaster relief work, the Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) said. A
total of 1.35 million woven bags, 1.2 million square meters of woven
fabric, and 130,000 square meters of geotextile along with other
supplies for flood relief were allocated from the national reserves to
the province. In the next three
days, heavy rainfall is expected to hit Chongqing, Guizhou and the
middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the situation of
flood control will remain grim and complex, according to the
meteorological department. So far, a
total of 37,777 people stranded in floods were rescued and over 107,000
people were evacuated by rescue teams, said the MEM. Enditem
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