Super Typhoon Ragasa may have been the biggest storm of its kind in the world this year, but when it made landfall in mainland China last month, it left no fatalities in its wake. Rewind to 2018 when Mangkhut, the last super typhoon to hit Guangdong province, struck and at least four people were killed…
Four people remained missing on Sunday after a railway bridge collapsed in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai, killing 12 people. The central government has sent a task force to investigate the failure, which occurred on a section over the Yellow River at about 3am on Friday, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The report said…
At least 30 people are missing after a landslide in southwestern China on Saturday, according to state media. The landslide occurred in the village of Jinping in Sichuan province at around 11.50am, burying at least 10 houses, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The village is part of the city of Yibin. Emergency workers pulled two people…
A woman in central China has astonished social media users by constructing a door in the external wall of a residential building and installing stairs to connect to the adjacent block as an emergency exit in the event of a fire. The modifications made by the resident surnamed Wang, who lives in Changde, Hunan province,…