Friday, April 26, 2024
News

9 dead, 2 rescued in power station flooding in southwest China

   SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend    Print this Page   COMMENT

Chengdu | January 14, 2022 4:50:48 PM IST
Nine people have been confirmed dead after a building flooded at a power station in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, local media reported citing authorities as saying on Friday.

The flooding, which took place at around 1:40 p.m. (local time) Wednesday, trapped 11 maintenance personnel in the power station in Danba County.

Two people were rescued without life-threatening injuries, Xinhua reported.

All the flood water had been pumped out by 2:45 p.m. (local time) Friday, ending a rescue operation joined by over 500 rescue workers from related provincial, prefectural and county departments, as per Xinhua. (ANI)

 
  LATEST COMMENTS ()
POST YOUR COMMENT
Comments Not Available
 
POST YOUR COMMENT
 
 
TRENDING TOPICS
 
 
CITY NEWS
MORE CITIES
 
 
 
MORE WORLD NEWS
'India can speak to its own visa policy'...
US envoy Garcetti stresses peaceful expr...
BRICS Summit in Kazan will mark achievem...
US imposes sanctions on over a dozen ent...
Uyghur Congress criticises BASF's China ...
Pak: Floods washes away houses of Baloch...
More...
 
INDIA WORLD ASIA
LS polls: BJP leader Vasundhara Raje cas...
Lok Sabha polls: Union Minister Nirmala ...
'No comparison to what Modi ji has done ...
'After phase one, PM is panicking': Cong...
'Important day for future of Thiruvanant...
Google Doodle commemorates second phase ...
More...    
 
 Top Stories
Sunrisers Hyderabad enter IPL recor... 
Lok Sabha 2024 polls: Madan Lal rea... 
US envoy Garcetti stresses peaceful... 
South Korea, India hold consultatio... 
LS polls: People in remote Tripura ... 
BJP will be wiped out in South, hal... 
Karnataka: Kanakapura's forest-them... 
"Aaj batting tera Jassi bhai karega...