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“Torrential rainfall crossed confederate and cardinal China triggered wide flooding connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026), sidesplitting astatine slightest 10 people, closing schools and businesses, and disrupting transport and powerfulness supplies,” authorities said.
China's upwind bureau said areas successful Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan faced a precocious hazard of rain-related disasters, including landslips, flash floods and terrible municipality flooding and waterlogging. Authorities said they were launching exigency responses successful respective affected areas.
Many residents successful Jingzhou, a metropolis successful cardinal Hubei, were knee-deep in water and capable to drawback food swimming successful the streets, according to images posted connected Chinese video level Douyin. Some cars were astir wholly submerged connected roads surrounded by residential and commercialized buildings.
At slightest six radical died aft a pickup motortruck carrying 15 passengers fell into a flooded stream successful China's southwestern portion of Guangxi amid dense rain, State broadcaster CCTV reported connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026).
“In abstracted incidents, 3 radical were killed by flash floods successful a low-lying colony successful Hubei, portion different idiosyncratic was killed in confederate Hunan province,” CCTV said.
Schools, businesses and transport services person been suspended, and authorities are relocating residents in immoderate parts of Hubei and Hunan, State media reported.
Heavy rainfall expected on Yangtze river
The unusually ample country of aggravated rainfall, spanning more than 1,000 km (621 miles) was owed to the convergence of abundant moisture from the Bay of Bengal, the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The slow-moving quality of the upwind strategy besides led to the precocious cumulative rainfall, according to Chinese meteorologists.
China's National Meteorological Centre said terrible upwind would gradually determination eastbound and southbound across China implicit the adjacent 2 days. From Wednesday (May 20, 2026), the heaviest rainfall is expected on the mediate and little reaches of the Yangtze River.
China's confederate Hainan land issued a geological catastrophe informing on Tuesday (May 19, 2026), arsenic a mountainside collapsed onto a road successful Lingshui, prompting authorities to adjacent respective large roads successful that country of the island.
Separately, authorities successful Guangxi acceptable up impermanent shelters connected 99 sites for much than 4,000 residents and relocated 7,000 radical aft a magnitude 5.2 earthquake connected Monday (May 18, 2026), which sent tremors across aggregate cities successful the region.
