Flash Floods Due To Extreme Rain In Shangdong China Kills 2 People, 10 Others Lost

JAKARTA Heavy rain that caused flash floods in eastern China's Shandong province killed two people and caused 10 people to disappear. It rained in five hours, pouring down Laiwu District in Jinan City.

The area experienced a maximum rainfall of 364 millimeters (14.3 inches) which fell from midnight on Tuesday to 5 am local time, half of Jinan's average annual rainfall of 733 millimeters (28.9 inches).

Flash floods occurred near the villages of the Shiwuzi and Zhujiayu mountains in Jinan, sweeping or destroying 19 houses.

Rescue efforts are ongoing and all efforts are deployed to rescue the missing persons, authorities said.

This flash flood is part of a broader extreme weather pattern across the country due to the East Asian monsoon which has caused disruption in the world's second-largest economy.

The southern region was also flooded with heavy rain after Topan Wipha hit Hong Kong on Sunday.

Extreme rainfall and severe flooding, which meteorologists attribute to climate change, poses a major challenge as it threatens to flood aging flood embankments, displacing millions of people, and bringing disaster to the agricultural sector worth USD 2.8 trillion.