{"id":34320,"date":"2021-07-23T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/china-floods-thousands-trapped-without-fresh-water-as-rain-moves-north"},"modified":"2021-07-23T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:49:56","slug":"china-floods-thousands-trapped-without-fresh-water-as-rain-moves-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34320","title":{"rendered":"China floods: thousands trapped without fresh water as rain moves north"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme rainstorms are continuing their path of destruction, dumping 260mm on the city of Xinxiang in just two hours<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people remain trapped in areas of central China as floods continue to batter the region after record-breaking rainfall. At least 33 people have been killed in recent days but the death toll is expected to rise as recovery crews access previously submerged roads and tunnels in the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>Extreme rainstorms \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/22\/china-floods-military-blasts-dam-release-water-as-floods-death-toll-climbs\">which dumped a year\u2019s worth of rain<\/a> on and around the capital of Henan province, Zhengzhou, earlier this week \u2013 have since moved north, affecting outer cities and regional areas, trapping people without electricity or fresh water, including at hospitals.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/23\/china-floods-thousands-trapped-without-fresh-water-as-rain-moves-north\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme rainstorms are continuing their path of destruction, dumping 260mm on the city of Xinxiang in just two hoursThousands of people remain trapped in areas of central China as floods continue to batter the region after record-breaking rainfall. At &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,313,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-flooding","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34320\/revisions\/34324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}