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(Original title: Heavy rains in Hanyuan County, Sichuan Province caused more than 30 villagers to lose contact: local authorities organized evacuations, and some encountered mountain torrents when returning home)

When a flash flood breaks out, the floodwater rushes along the river in front of the village. All pictures in this article are provided by the interviewees.

At 2:30 a.m. on July 20, a rushing mountain torrent destroyed houses along the river, and some villagers were swept away by the flood while they were still sleeping.

The flash flood disaster occurred in Xinhua Village, Malie Township, Hanyuan County, Sichuan Province. At present, the local authorities are still organizing search and rescue and disaster relief work. According to the Hanyuan County Emergency Management Bureau, after preliminary investigation, the flash flood caused more than 30 people to be missing and more than 40 houses were damaged. According to Xinhua News Agency on the evening of the 20th, 4 people have been rescued and are not in danger of life. On-site search and rescue work is still going on in the rain.

"The flood came too suddenly," Wang Fuchao, former director of the Xinhua Village Committee, told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn): "Many people were sleeping at the time and had no time to run." Several villagers confirmed that before the flash floods broke out, due to continuous heavy rains, the local government had organized villagers to relocate to a nearby abandoned school, but some people were not used to it and "slipped back home", and were hit by the flash floods.

“The houses along the river were washed away by the flood.”

Xinhua Village, about 40 kilometers away from Hanyuan County, is located in a valley with mountains in front and behind. There are more than a thousand people in the village.

The flash flood disaster occurred at around 2:30 a.m. on July 20. Wang Fuchao and his family lived in the county town that day and escaped the disaster.

Photos taken on the scene on the 20th showed that the flood water level in front of Xinhua Village had receded, but there was still yellow water flowing down the mountain. The original riverbed was expanded by the flood, and there were a lot of alluvial stones on the riverside. Many houses on the side were washed away; a double-arch stone bridge not far from the village had its passage blocked by washed-down trees and debris, and the river water from upstream overflowed the road and flowed downstream.

The stone bridge was blocked by washed-down trees

The pictures showed that in Xinhua Village, some construction vehicles were working at the disaster site and rescue workers were searching in the surrounding area.

"The flood suddenly rose at night and all the houses along the river were washed away." Wang Fuchao told The Paper that he later learned that the water level when the flash flood occurred "may have been several meters high" and more than 30 villagers in the village lost contact.

"There are both old people and children. The exact number has not been determined yet and we are still looking for it." On the evening of July 20, Wang Fuchao said on the phone that many villagers were still sleeping when the flash floods broke out and had no time to escape.

"After the mountain torrents broke out, mudslides broke out and rushed for several kilometers." Zhang Chungui, a villager in Xinhua Village, said that his old house was washed away by the flood, and seven relatives including his aunt, cousin, and cousin-in-law lost contact in the flood.

Zhang Chungui has been running a farm in the area in recent years to raise forest musk deer. According to him, before the flash flood, the farm had more than 50 forest musk deer, each worth more than 100,000 yuan. "Now that the flood has hit, the loss of forest musk deer alone is 5 to 6 million yuan." Zhang Chungui said that fortunately, the breeders evacuated the farm before the flash flood.

Before the flash flood occurred, the locals organized villagers to evacuate

Heavy rain was the direct cause of this flash flood.

"It rained heavily continuously, with 150 mm of precipitation." Zhang Chungui said that before the flash flood occurred, heavy rain lasted for more than an hour in the area.

Earlier, from July 17 to 18, Hanyuan County also experienced continuous heavy rainfall, and some local roads, electricity, water supply and other infrastructure were damaged to varying degrees.

According to information released by the WeChat public account "Da Mei Han Yuan", a mudslide disaster occurred in Tuanjie Village, Xiaobao Township on July 18. "Thanks to timely warning and rapid evacuation, 24 people from 14 households in the area had already been safely evacuated, and no one was injured."

On the afternoon of July 19, Hanyuan County issued a blue warning for heavy rain, a yellow warning for geological disasters, and an orange warning for mountain torrents.

According to villagers such as Zhang Chungui and Wang Fuchao, before the flash flood broke out in the early morning of July 20, village cadres organized the villagers of Xinhua Village to evacuate, and many villagers were resettled in an abandoned school in the village, hundreds of meters away from the river.

"Some people may feel uncomfortable in the resettlement site and run back home," said Zhang Chungui.

Xinhua Village was hit by the flash flood disaster

At 2:30 a.m. on July 20, a flash flood came. According to a report from the Hanyuan County Emergency Management Bureau that afternoon, Xinhua Village was hit by a flash flood due to heavy rain, which cut off communications, roads, and bridges. After preliminary investigation, more than 30 people were missing and more than 40 houses were damaged.

After the disaster occurred, the local area immediately set up an emergency rescue command center, organized public security, fire and other rescue forces, and fully carried out tasks such as search and rescue of personnel, investigation of personnel in key areas, relocation and resettlement of disaster-stricken people, and restoration of road communications.

On the afternoon of July 20, staff from the Hanyuan County Fire Rescue Brigade and the Malie Township Government told The Paper that rescue work at the disaster site was still ongoing.

In the afternoon of the same day, a working group of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters rushed to the disaster site to guide rescue operations; the Ministry of Emergency Management dispatched personnel and equipment to the scene, and the Wing Loong UAV performed on-site emergency command and communication support tasks.

The current focus of the rescue work is to seize the 72-hour golden rescue period and make all-out efforts to search and rescue the missing persons.

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