Starting from the night of June 12, heavy to heavy rainstorms and local heavy rainstorms occurred in many places in Shaoguan, Guangdong. Among them, Weng Yuan Xiaoshi recorded the maximum rainfall in 24 hours in more than 50 years.

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Starting from the night of June 12, heavy to heavy rains and local heavy rains occurred in many places in Shaoguan, Guangdong. Among them, Weng Yuan Xiaoshi recorded the maximum rainfall in 24 hours in more than 50 years. Affected by the continuous heavy rainfall, some counties and towns in Shaoguan Haoguan experienced floods, flooded farmland, landslides, communication interruptions and other disasters. Emergency rescue forces from various places in Shaoguan rushed to the disaster area for rescue and disaster relief and evacuation.

At present, Wengyuan County has been on a red warning for heavy rain, and some areas of various places have been baptized, and 8 towns have experienced landslides, damage to water conservancy projects, crop flooding, urban and rural flooding and other disasters. At present, Wengyuan County has dispatched more than 670 cadres to participate in disaster relief and rescue, and dispatched 12 assault boats to the severely affected areas to help rescue and transfer trapped people. As of 7:00 on the 14th, 4,282 people have been safely evacuated.

Also affected by rainfall is Shixing County , which has currently been yellow rainstorm warning. Starting from this year's dragon boat water period, as of the 12th, there have been heavy rainstorms and above in Shixing County, Shaoguan for 8 days. The average cumulative rainfall in the county is 322.9 mm, 2.14 times that of the same period in 2021. The maximum cumulative rainfall occurred in Aizi Town 678.8 mm, 3.61 times that of the same period last year. As of 9:00 on the 14th, a total of 1,414 people were evacuated in Shixing County, with no casualties. At present, all flood prevention work is in progress in an orderly manner.

(Central Station reporter Zhao Jing)