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Call to evacuate Chinese residents ‘without delay’ as second typhoon threatens country’s northeast
- Flooding in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri kills more than a dozen in Jilin province and threatens rice harvest in Heilongjiang
- With Typhoon Khanun heading towards Japan and South Korea, disaster relief efforts are ‘demanding and not optimistic’, says Chinese flood authority
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Yuanyue Dangin Beijing
The authorities in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang called for residents to be evacuated “without delay” as 12 rivers in the province rose above warning levels and a second typhoon threatened further heavy rain.
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Much of northeastern China was transformed into a flood zone in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri, which has left more than a dozen people dead in the region.
Rescue operations were continuing in Heilongjiang and the neighbouring province of Jilin on Tuesday.
At a flood control meeting on Sunday night, Heilongjiang provincial party secretary Xu Qin told local authorities to “transfer and resettle people without delay”, according to the Heilongjiang Daily.
“[We] would rather hear curses than cries. [We] have to relocate all the people threatened by the flood without leaving a family or a person behind,” Xu said.
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The provincial hydrology authorities warned that the 12 rivers that had exceeded the warning level included two major waterways – the Mudan and Songhua rivers.
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