Floodwater sweeps away fire truck in China as Tropical Storm Haikui hits southeast coast

Beijing — Excessive waters swept a hearth truck right into a river in southeast China early Tuesday, leaving 5 crew members lacking, native authorities mentioned, because the second tropical storm in latest days hit the mainland. What had been Hurricane Haikui weakened to a tropical storm because it scraped alongside the shoreline of Fujian and Guangdong provinces Tuesday morning, bringing as much as two toes of rainfall to some areas because it moved inland, in response to China’s meteorological company.

The hearth truck swept right into a river in Fujian’s Yongtai county had been carrying 9 crew members. Rescuers have been “doing all they’ll” to search out the 5 nonetheless unaccounted for, in response to the county emergency response headquarters, as cited by on-line information website The Paper.

Water transportation and work alongside the shoreline have been suspended forward of Haikui, which crossed the southern tip of Taiwan on Sunday as a storm with out inflicting main harm.

The Reuters information company mentioned greater than 114,000 folks have been evacuated from low-lying areas alongside the Chinese language coast because the storm approached.

In latest months, China has had a few of its heaviest rains and deadliest flooding in years. Dozens of individuals have been killed, together with in outlying mountainous components of the capital, Beijing.

Haikui adopted Hurricane Saola’s landfall early Saturday alongside the Guangdong coast. The storm had sideswiped Hong Kong final week, inflicting some flooding.