Qinghai Datong County announced the cause of "8 · 18" flood disasters

The emergency headquarters of the "August 18" mountain flood disaster rescue rescue disposal of the "August 18" Mountains in the Datong Hui Autonomous County, Xining City, Qinghai Province held a press conference. For rescue, 17 people still lost contact.

The reporter learned from the press conference that at 22:25 on the 17th, Xining Meteorological Bureau and Datong County Meteorological Bureau issued a red warning of heavy rain, and then heavy rainfall appeared in most areas in the city. At about 00:00 on the 18th, after the rainfall of Qinglin Township and Qingshan Township, Datong County, the floods caused mudslides, causing the rivers to change the roads. There were 6,245 people in 1517 households in 2 towns and 6 villages, of which 975 households and 31111 people were severely affected by the severe affair. Essence Mountain floods caused 2 houses to be destroyed, and most of the 14 houses were damaged. Disaster damage such as other houses, roads, bridges, and rivers was under further statistics.

Han Xianghui, Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Qinghai Provincial Emergency Management Department, introduced at the press conference that after the disaster, Qinghai Province launched the provincial -level disaster -level disaster level Ⅱ and level I emergency response, local fire, public security, emergency and other departments, and A total of more than 4,500 people for the PLA, armed police officers and soldiers, and local villages and towns to form a rescue team. The grouping segments, extension expansion, and rolling are fully rolled out.

Han Xianghui said that after inspection of natural resources, water conservancy, and meteorological departments on the spot, there were three causes of comprehensive analysis of the disaster: first, the recent continuous rainfall caused the soil water volume to reach or approach saturation; On the evening of the 17th, the heavy rainfall caused the river flow to increase to about 100 cubic meters per second, causing flood disasters.

Ma Mingxu, the head of Datong County, introduced at the press conference that after investigating the information and living conditions of the affected people locally, set up a disaster -owned crowd place in Datong No.1 Middle School and Shuoshan Middle School, transferred 1249 people, transferred tents, marching beds, quilts, and instant noodles. , Mineral water, drugs and other disaster relief materials to ensure the lives of the affected people.

According to reports, local search and rescue will be strengthened, and the number of lost contacts will be approved by the village to ensure that there will be no omissions. At the same time, it will restore damage facilities such as roads, power, and communication as soon as possible.

(Source: Xinhua News Agency)

【Edit: Shang Pei】

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