Sichuan suffered the biggest rainfall during flood season

  Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, June 17th (Reporters Zhang Hailei, Kang Jinqian) From June 16th to 17th, Sichuan suffered the biggest heavy rainfall process since the flood began in 2020. Up to now, this round of rain has caused various disasters in Jinchuan County, Aba Prefecture, Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture, Tongjiang County, Bazhong City, etc. One person died and three people lost contact.

  From 8:00 on the 16th to 17:00 on the 17th, the northeast, northwest, central and western Sichuan plateaus of the Sichuan Basin partly fell to heavy rains, and some parts of the heavy rains fell, and some places fell extremely heavy rains. The largest was Changping Station in Tongjiang County, Bazhong City. 323.7 mm.

  Heavy rainfall caused a mudslide disaster in Jinjiang Village, Gor Township, Jinchuan County, Aba Prefecture. As of 15:00 on the 17th, the mudslide caused 1 death and 1 lost contact.

  As of 16:00 on the 17th, a total of 10 debris flow disasters in the district of Danba County, Ganzi Prefecture, roads, river embankments, rivers, and cultivated land were damaged to varying degrees. Houses in Aniangou Village and Guanzhou Village of Banfanmen Town were basically washed away. Two people lost contact during the transfer.

  Heavy rains also caused damage to some houses, road interruption, crop destruction and many mountain collapses in Tongjiang County, Bazhong City.

  At present, rescue work such as finding missing people, searching and rescuing the trapped people, and resettling the disaster-affected people is under way.

  At 17:00 on the 17th, the Sichuan Meteorological Bureau and the Office of the Sichuan Provincial Geological Disaster Command jointly announced that there is a high risk of geological disasters in the northern part of the Middle East, northern Panzhihua, and central and southern Liangshan Prefecture from 2:00 on the 17th to 8:00 on the 18th.