Hong Kong – A girl was found alive and unharmed more than seven hours after heavy rains dragged her to a sewer in China, rescuers said.
On his way home from school on Monday, “Rushing Waters” took the 8 -year -old girl to a drainage ditch while trying to collect a lost shoe, firefighters in the southern province of Guizhou said in a statement.
The girl survived holding a horizontal bar of around 32 feet down in the wastewater pipe, according to the statement. Cattered for more than seven hours, she was soaked from the head to her feet, but did not show “no obvious serious injuries,” he said.
“This first -grade girl fought against darkness, coldness and constant fear with amazing calm and perseverance,” the statement added. “We give this brave girl an approval.”
For Thursday, at least six people had died and tens of thousands were evacuated by the heavy rains that have mistreated the provinces of southern China of Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Hubei since June 17, according to the State News Agency Xinhua. Generalized floods have demolished buildings and infrastructure.
The Chinese government allocated 300 million yuan ($ 41 million) of disaster relief funds on Monday for areas severely affected by floods.
At least 20 rivers have seen floods higher than the warning levels due to heavy rains, according to the country’s ministry of water resources, Xinhua reported.
As the dangerous surface runoff began to retreat and the work began to eliminate the silt left by the power of flooding and restoration, telecommunications and water networks, the authorities warned people who remained alert to secondary disasters such as road collapses, landslides and overflows hydro-dam
The rains of a tropical depression are expected to touch land in Guangxi on Thursday night could affect the restoration and cleaning work.
