{"id":29282,"date":"2013-08-20T23:27:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=29282"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:27:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:27:49","slug":"floods-leave-at-least-107-dead-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=29282","title":{"rendered":"Floods leave at least 107 dead in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Flooding-hits-north-south-China2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29279\" alt=\"Flooding hits north, south China2\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Flooding-hits-north-south-China2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Flooding-hits-north-south-China2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Flooding-hits-north-south-China2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Flooding-hits-north-south-China2-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Flooding in China&#8217;s north and south caused by heavy rain has left at least 107 dead and inundated roads and farmland, the government and state media said.<\/p>\n<p>Three provinces in China&#8217;s northeast bore the brunt of the floods with 85 dead and 105 missing in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning as of 4pm on Monday,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.cn\/ldhd\/2013-08\/19\/content_2469930.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> the government said. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A total of 37 million residents in that region were affected by flood waters, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/politics\/2013-08\/19\/c_117004126.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Xinhua said<\/a>, which were described by a local newspaper as the worst in 50 years in Liaoning province.<\/p>\n<p>More than 787,000 hectares of farmland in the region, a major grain growing area, were flooded and pictures showed roads in many urban areas looking more like rivers.<\/p>\n<p>Xinhua said that the People&#8217;s Liberation Army had been mobilized to carry out rescue work.<\/p>\n<p>Some internet users criticized the official response to the floods.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flooding in China&#8217;s north and south caused by heavy rain has left at least 107&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[1306],"class_list":["post-29282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","tag-china-2","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}