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On August 12, multiple videos with the same content were circulated on the Internet. The videos said that on the afternoon of August 11, tourists were rafting in Wugong Mountain Scenic Area in Jiangxi Province when the water suddenly rose. The rafting boat that some tourists were riding capsized and was washed away by the flood. On the afternoon of the 12th, the reporter contacted Ms. Wang, a tourist whose relatives were washed away by the flood. Ms. Wang told the reporter that it was her daughter and son-in-law who were washed away by the flood. When her daughter was found that night, she had unfortunately died, and her son-in-law was injured and hospitalized. At present, they are negotiating with the scenic area, but there is no result yet.

At around 14:00 on the 11th, Ms. Wang and her daughter and their family of three went to the Wanlong Gorge rafting project in the Wugong Mountain Scenic Area to play rafting. At that time, Ms. Wang took her grandson on a rafting boat, and her daughter Ms. Guo and son-in-law Mr. Li set off in another rafting boat. Ms. Wang said that after drifting for about ten minutes, when the boat Ms. Wang was on came to a wide area in the middle reaches, she heard a notice from the staff on the intercom, saying that the water level in the upper reaches had risen and asked everyone to go ashore as soon as possible. At this time, the boat Ms. Guo and Mr. Li were still in the upper reaches. Ms. Wang quickly called Ms. Guo and agreed that she and her grandson would go ashore first in the middle reaches, and let her daughter and son-in-law continue to drift down to the middle reaches and then go ashore to meet.

On August 11, the flooding scene of the Wanlong Gorge rafting project. (Source: Video screenshot provided by netizens)

Less than ten minutes after Ms. Wang and her grandson came ashore, she found that the water level rose rapidly. Looking from the shore, the water level in the middle reaches rose by about 1 meter. Ms. Wang said that it was about 200 meters from the upstream where she entered the water to the place where she came ashore, and it would take at most a few minutes to drift down, but there was a steep slope upstream that would delay the time. It started to rain and there was no place to hide from the rain. Ms. Wang was worried that her grandson would get wet, so she took someone else's motorcycle to a nearby post station to continue waiting. While waiting, Ms. Wang kept calling Ms. Guo and Mr. Li, but could not get through. At around 16:00, Mr. Li called Ms. Wang and said that he was sent to the post station, and his wife fell into the water and had not been found. "I knew something had happened when I saw that my daughter didn't come."