It has been more than seven days since the Huanggang Yicun Party Secretary Xunhe Embankment was washed away and lost, and more than 70 people participated in the search and rescue

  A village party secretary in Huanggang City, Hubei Province, was swept away by the flood. As of the evening of June 28, it had been over 7 days since the loss of contact. At the time of the incident, there was heavy rainfall in the area and he was patrolling the river embankment.

  On the evening of the 28th, Peng Mei News (www.thepaper.cn) learned from the Propaganda Department of the Yingshan County Party Committee in Huanggang City that as of 8 o'clock that night, the search and rescue personnel had not yet found Liu Shuicun, the village party secretary of the Poernao Village in Wenquan Town. At present, more than 50 search and rescue forces including the Blue Sky Rescue Team, Guangdong Foshan Rescue Team, Xishui Salvage Team, Fire Fighting, and Public Security are participating in the water search and rescue, and there are 2 aerial drones to cooperate with the surface search and rescue.

  In addition, more than 20 people from the emergency unit of Wenquan Township carried out shore search at the same time. At present, the search and rescue area is more than 100,000 square meters, and then the local search and rescue scope will be further expanded.

  Surging News previously reported that at 11 o'clock on the morning of June 21, Liu Shui, 58-year-old secretary of the Poernao Village branch of Wenquan Town, accidentally fell into a river channel in front of the village when he was patrolling the river embankment, and was unfortunately washed away by the flood. Firefighters and the hot spring town government and other personnel began search and rescue from noon that day.

  According to another report from Huanggang Daily, the village of Po'erao was under heavy rain at the time of the incident. The topography of the village is low. The upstream water pools and the river rushes into the village. The rivers, highways, and fields are connected together into a vast ocean.

  Introduced by the Propaganda Department of the Yingshan County Committee, Liu Shuicun joined the party in 1997. From October 2008 to October 2014, he served as the director of the Poernao Village Committee. From November 2014 to October 2018, he served as the deputy director of the village committee. From month to present, he has served as secretary of the village party branch and director of the village committee.

  Surging News reporter Xue Shasha