{"id":916352,"date":"2026-07-06T13:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916352\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T13:07:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T13:07:28","slug":"china-dam-collapses-cross-border-railway-halted-as-typhoon-maysak-slams-guangxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/916352\/","title":{"rendered":"China dam collapses, cross-border railway halted as Typhoon Maysak slams Guangxi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Floodwater breached a reservoir in southern China and threatened others on Monday, as heavy rain pounded the region, forcing hundreds of people to flee to higher ground.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities urged caution and ordered rescue and evacuation operations, with <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/video\/china\/3359515\/typhoon-maysak-brings-heavy-rain-strong-winds-southern-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Typhoon Maysak<\/a> expected to bring more bad weather.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Officials established rescue-and-evacuation teams and warned residents to stay away from the affected regions, rivers and low-lying areas.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At about 11am on Monday, two sections of the dam at Liulan Reservoir in Hengzhou gave way.<\/p>\n<p>Typhoon Maysak brings heavy rain, strong winds to southern China<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The collapse created a 50-metre (164-foot) gap in the structure, sending a massive torrent of water rushing downstream, the China Business Network reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Floodwater breached a reservoir in southern China and threatened others on Monday, as heavy rain pounded the region,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":916353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[98164,22165,108020,128463,370225,370226,370224,128458,50,17249,135037,269523,103],"class_list":["post-916352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-china-business-network","tag-chinese","tag-guangxi","tag-guangxi-zhuang-autonomous-region","tag-hengzhou","tag-liulan-reservoir","tag-maysak","tag-nanning","tag-news","tag-reservoir","tag-southern-china","tag-typhoon","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116873189538407832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916352","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=916352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}