Heavy rainfall hit Chengkou County in Chongqing, causing 22 towns and villages to be affected. Direct economic losses exceeded 14 million yuan.

China News Service, Chongqing, September 29 (Zhang Xu) A reporter learned from Chengkou County, Chongqing on the 28th that as of 18:00 on September 28, 22 towns (streets) in the county had reported disasters, with a population of 4,017 affected, and 517 households with 1,440 people evacuated (including 186 households with 561 people before the rain, and 331 households with 879 people during the rain). This rain has caused general damage to 229 houses in 178 households and collapsed 34 houses in 7 households in the county.

In addition, 37.06 hectares of crops were affected (12.79 hectares of crops failed), 32 roads were damaged to varying degrees, and 54 kilometers of optical fibers were damaged, causing direct economic losses of 14.2269 million yuan.

The Chengkou County Emergency Management Bureau has 20 professional emergency rescue team members, dispatched 5 vehicles, 8 sets of drainage equipment and other rescue forces to carry out emergency response work in Xianyi Town, Mingzhong Township and Jiming Township of the county. The bureau has counted 1,595 rescue forces of various types that the county can currently dispatch, and can be dispatched as soon as possible in case of sudden disasters and dangers.

At 17:00 on September 28, the Chongqing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau and the Chongqing Meteorological Bureau jointly issued an early warning stating that from 20:00 on September 28 to 20:00 on the 29th, Chongqing Wuxi and Chengkou are areas with high geological disaster and meteorological risks, and the geological disaster and meteorological risk level is Level I (red warning). (over)