![]() ![]() Police evacuate traffic in floodwater near Zhengzhou Railway Station, Jin Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. Henan is the birthplace of traditional Chinese martial arts and home to many kung fu academies.Ī statement said "key protected cultural relics suffered varying degrees of water damage," but said they were now safe, without providing precise details.Īs the scale of the disaster continued to unspool and the damage ran into tens of millions of dollars, the Chinese army said it had averted the collapse of the stricken Yihetan dam around an hour from Zhengzhou city. The body for cultural heritage warned some key heritage sites had suffered water damage, including the Shaolin temple - a famous monastery and school for martial arts - and the Longmen Grottoes, a UNESCO heritage site of stone Buddhist carvings dating back to the fifth century. "I can't take this anymore." Bad and getting worseĪuthorities have issued the highest warning level for Henan province as floods continue to hammer the region, with landslides blocking many roads, villages evacuated, tourist sites closed and large areas left without communication. ![]() "I want to get home as soon as possible," she told AFP, sitting by the side of the road. She said she has struggled to contact relatives or make mobile payments because of weak phone signal. Li Rongguang, a woman in her sixties, told AFP she came to Zhengzhou to see a doctor but was stranded when trains were halted due to the storm. Relatives outside Zhengzhou made anxious pleas on China's Weibo for information as communications to the city went down. ![]()
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