{"id":17003,"date":"2025-06-26T18:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17003\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:47:13","slug":"floods-leave-six-dead-and-thousands-displaced-in-china-floods-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17003\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods leave six dead and thousands displaced in China | Floods News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people have died from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/6\/26\/six-dead-thousands-displaced-as-floods-hit-southwestern-china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">floods in China\u2019s Guizhou province<\/a>, state media said, after more than 80,000 people were driven from their homes this week.<\/p>\n<p>Towns and villages by a key river in China\u2019s Guangxi lay half-submerged as floodwaters from a province upstream roared into the mountainous region, with the expected landfall of a tropical cyclone later on Thursday compounding disaster risk.<\/p>\n<p>The flooding that overwhelmed the counties of Rongjiang and Congjiang in Guizhou province on Tuesday has spread downstream to other parts of southwest China, including rural settlements in Guangxi by the Liu River, which originates from Guizhou.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, state broadcaster CCTV said \u201cexceptionally large floods\u201d had swept through Guizhou\u2019s Rongjiang county since Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>China is enduring a summer of extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>This week, authorities issued the second-highest heat warning for the capital, Beijing, on one of its hottest days of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people were evacuated last week in Hunan province \u2013 neighbouring Guizhou \u2013 due to heavy rain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people have died from floods in China\u2019s Guizhou province, state media said, after more than 80,000 people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[13214,74,746,8072,16610,16611,50,159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-17003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-asia-pacific","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-floods","12":"tag-gallery","13":"tag-in-pictures","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114751159952068993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}