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Tragedy and Inaction: The Devastating Floods in Zhuozhou and Laishui County

[Voice of Hope August 5, 2023](Comprehensive report by our reporter Fu Ming) To protect Xiongan, the Zhuozhou authorities dug embankments to release floodwaters, and did not notify the villagers in time. Thousands of villagers were trapped in their flooded homes, causing heavy casualties, but state media said there were zero dead and zero missing. Rescuers disclosed the shocking tragedy: when the door was opened, there were corpses floating inside. “Southern Weekend” reporter even angrily denounced Zhuozhou officials as “beasts”.

Netizen “Ms. Li is not your teacher @whyyoutouzhele” received a message from a netizen in Zhuozhou: Since July 30, Zhuozhou has been digging embankments to release floods, and in the next three days, more river embankments will be dug As a result, a larger area of ​​Zhuozhou was flooded. At present, Zhuozhou officials have not only failed to show up at the disaster relief site, they have not even issued a notification to assist in disaster relief, and demanded that there be no dead and zero missing. But the rescuers revealed that when the door was opened, there were corpses floating on the water inside.

According to the CCP’s official media, as of 10 a.m. on August 1, 133,913 people were affected by the disaster in the city, with 0 deaths and 0 missing persons; 146 villages were affected, covering an area of ​​225.38 square kilometers. As of 17:00 on July 31, the agricultural disaster-affected area has been counted at 9,726 mu.

Until August 5th, Zhuozhou’s official disaster situation has not been updated.

At present, the water depth of Zhuozhou Middle School is still more than 3 meters:

At present, a “Southern Weekend” reporter’s post about the situation in Zhuozhou is spreading wildly on Weibo in mainland China, angrily accusing CCP officials of being “better than animals”:

“Ms. Li is not your teacher” released a video: On August 5, netizens in Zhuozhou took a real photo of the current Zhuozhou material warehouse. In the video, there are a lot of materials piled up in the warehouse, but the village cannot collect them. They can only come to collect them if they have a certificate issued by the township level or above.

In addition, Laishui County, Hebei Province, which is not far from Zhuozhou, notified the local disaster situation on the evening of August 3: 15 townships and 284 villages in the county were affected, with an area of ​​157,890 hectares and a population of 73,000. The well-known Yesanpo Scenic Spot suffered devastating damage, and there was no death report in the county.

However, local informed netizens said that at least 14 people were killed in Laishui County:

Another netizen in Laishui County revealed that there were nearly 100 local casualties:

“I come from Xijiao Village, Laishui County. In the village, 6 people were killed, 2 were injured, and 6 people were also killed in neighboring villages. There were corresponding casualties in other villages, nearly a hundred people, but the government suppressed the information and declared that Laishui There were no casualties in the county. After the government’s “inaction” and after a rare private rescue team entered the village to understand the situation, some news reports reported that there were casualties, but the number was far from a few, but nearly a hundred.”

Netizens described the tragedy of the flood in Laishui County:

“On July 31, 2023, a heavy rainstorm occurred in the Laishui mountain area (from Anzigou to Yesanpo), causing mountain torrents. In the case of surrounding mountains, mudslides of various sizes occurred in almost all valleys. Along the 108 National Highway, more than a dozen Almost half of the village remained in one day. The houses were washed away, the village was filled with mud, the power poles collapsed, the water and electricity were cut off, and there was no signal. During the two days of the flood, it was up to the villagers to save themselves, and all the bridges were washed away People on the other side of the river are in urgent need of rescue, including one-year-old children and students who are approaching the deadline for voluntary filing.”

Entire villages were nearly leveled by mudslides:

Laishui isolated village seeks help: more than 10 people lost contact, 2 people were killed:

Responsible editor: Zhang Lili

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2023-08-06 04:30:04
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