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Some residents were still waiting to be rescued. Lu Xiaofei, who
works in Shenzhen, a tech hub near Hong Kong, said her brother's
family was stuck at his house in Lu village in Qintang district.
His brother was with his wife, his 9-month-old baby, their
parents and grandfather.
“The water in the house is over one person’s height. They have
to all move to the second floor. The power has been out since
yesterday morning, and now they don’t have running water,
either,” Lu told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
Lu said her brother told her that the water level rose last
night and their situation was so dire that drinkable water would
be running out soon, while local authorities had not reached out
to them. Many villagers nearby were facing the same challenges,
she said.
Others called for help on social media, showing videos of their
inundated surroundings following the flooding and highlighting
their lack of resources.
Local media Litchi News reported that snakes from breeding
facilities were washed away and were at large in Hengzhou city,
with some attempting to enter houses. It quoted a villager
saying that over a dozen of people were bitten.
The national meteorological center said heavy rain has been
battering central-eastern and southern parts of Guangxi since
last Saturday, with cumulative rainfall amounts reaching 100 mm
to 400 mm (about 4 inches to 16 inches) in some areas. Some
hard-hit areas recorded over 900 mm (35 inches), it said. The
weather agency said heavy rain would continue to affect the
areas on Wednesday.
Some train services were suspended in the region for safety
reasons.
While Guangxi was grappling with floods, Super Typhoon Bavi is
expected to hit parts of southeastern China over the weekend.
Elsewhere in Asia, severe weather also caused deaths. Landslides
triggered by heavy monsoon rains in southeastern Bangladesh
killed several Rohingya refugees, including five children. Heavy
monsoon rains battered parts of neighboring India, leaving over
a dozen of people dead over the past few days.
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AP writer Fu Ting in Washington contributed to this story.
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