A flash flood down a mountain in northwest China killed three of seven people trying to outrun it overnight on Thursday, adding to a growing list of casualties from unusually volatile weather in a very wet summer, APA reports citing Reuters.
The seven had scrambled to find safe ground in a hilly part of Gansu province after getting a storm warning but a flash flood caught up with them after midnight, killing three of them while two are missing, state media reported.
A day earlier, in southwest Sichuan province, seven tourists taking photographs at a beauty spot in a water conservation area were killed when a surge of water from a dam swept away their group.
The deaths are far from isolated in a summer that has brought record-breaking rain and extreme flooding as warmer temperatures fuel powerful convective weather in the northern hemisphere.
In another incident, a 27-year-old woman has been missing since June 30 when a flash flood swamped a camp site, killing her friend, in the southwestern Guizhou province, state media reported.
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