BEIJING, Apr 21: Landslides in southern China injured at least six people and trapped others, state media reported Sunday, as the region braced for severe floods "seen around once a century".
Torrential downpours across swathes of Guangdong province since Thursday have swollen rivers in the Pearl River Delta and triggered deluges in mountainous areas.
State broadcaster CCTV said Sunday that rains had sparked landslides affecting six villages in the northern Guangdong town of Jiangwan, "causing people to become trapped".
Photographs published by CCTV showed waterfront homes destroyed by a wall of brown mud, and people in fluorescent-coloured ponchos sheltering in a soaked public sports court.
No deaths were immediately reported and the total number of trapped people was not specified.
But CCTV said six people who were "trapped and injured" in the landslides had been airlifted to the nearby city of Shaoguan.
Emergency workers were racing to restore communications to the stricken area "as soon as possible", CCTV said. It added that more than 80 rescuers were working "through the day and night" to assist people in the disaster zone. —AFP
