China floods threaten ancient capital
BEIJING: Torrential rains have left 37 dead in China’’s ancient capital Luoyang and shut its World Heritage site as authorities on Monday warned other flood-hit areas to brace for renewed deluges in days ahead. Weekend torrential rains left another 19 people missing in Luoyang, a city in the central province of Henan that is famed for its 1,500-year-old Longmen Grottoes, a World Heritage Site. The northern province of Shaanxi, meanwhile, is reeling from downpours that have killed 111 people in just four days and left another 167 missing, the government said. More than 700,000 people were forced to flee their homes and nearly 48,000 houses collapsed as some areas there saw the worst rain in 500 years, it said. And in the southwestern province of Yunnan, 11 people are missing after rain-triggered landslides early Monday, the official local news agency said. National weather authorities have warned of still more rain in some flood-hit areas, which are generally centred on the drainage basin of the Yangtze river, China’’s longest.
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China floods threaten ancient capital
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