Typhoon Saudel: days of flooding trigger fatal landslide in central China

At least one person is dead and 11 are missing after the disaster struck a town in Suichuan county early on Saturday The landslide hit Gaoping, a town in a mountainous area of Jiangxi province, at around 4am on Saturday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The accident followed days of torrential rain brought by the outer bands of Typhoon Saudel and a cold front. Floodwaters have inundated Suichuan county, where the landslide struck, trapping residents, triggering road collapses and severely disrupting essential public services. The local water supplier issued an emergency notice warning that raw water quality had reached unsafe levels as a result of the floods and advised residents to let their tap water settle in containers before use.

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