[Explanation] In the past few days, due to the continuous heavy rainfall, the urban and rural floods in Hukou County, Jiangxi Province, in the northern Jiangxi region, have been severe and the flood prevention situation is severe.
[Commentary] During the college entrance examination, in order to ensure the smooth examination of students, the local deployment in advance arranged 240 firefighters, 13 assault boats and 5 rubber boats to participate in emergency rescue missions, transporting candidates to the test site on the accumulated water section of each test site .
[Same period] Local college entrance examination students
After going around two bends, neither Education Road nor Dachang can pass it.
[Same period] Local firefighter Fang Zhen
Here you are looking for scattered, to see if there are any students need to send the exam, focus on, we are transferring students. Now we have people working at various points.
[Commentary] At the same time, in Liufang Village, Hukou County, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, from the aerial photographs, it can be seen that the village has turned into an island in a vast ocean, and more than 300 villagers have been besieged by the flood. Local village officials and firefighters urgently organized rescue.
【Explanation】According to statistics, as of July 8 at 23:30, the floods and floods that started on July 6 had 1.796 million people in 50 counties in 6 cities in Jiangxi, with a direct economic loss of 1.24 billion yuan. The disaster situation is still under further statistical verification in.
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Editor in charge: [Chen Haifeng]