山西7月31日遭遇暴雨襲擊，該省氣象部門在當日凌晨發布暴雨紅色預警。據山西省民政廳統計，連日來的強降雨已造成呂梁、運城等地48.3萬人受災、7人死亡、3人失蹤。
Taiyuan (CNS) -- Shanxi Province was hit by rainstorms that began on July 26 and continued to fall heavily, affecting 483,000 residents and leaving seven dead and three missing, according to the local Bureau of Civil Affairs.
Some 123,000 residents were evacuated to a safe zone during the emergency, while 4,100 houses collapsed. Farmers face 642,500 hectares of soaked crops, of which 10,300 hectares will see no harvest. The direct economic loss is calculated at 1.46 billion yuan.
The rainstorm pummeled the provincial capital of Taiyuan from midnight July 30 and forty road sections became impassable at 1:20 am on July 31, according to the local authority, which dispatched 45 rescue vehicles.
The local meteorological center issued a red alert for a rainstorm at 4:22 am, July 31, covering cities in the weather downstream: Jinchen, Yucheng, Changzhi and Linfen.
山西7月31日遭遇暴雨襲擊，該省氣象部門在當日凌晨發布暴雨紅色預警。據山西省民政廳統計，連日來的強降雨已造成呂梁、運城等地48.3萬人受災、7人死亡、3人失蹤。
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