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Flooding in China during this summer’s rainy season killed 1,029 people in mudslides and mountain torrents, the government said Wednesday.
Heavy rains also destroyed tens of thousands of houses and caused $7.8 billion in damage during the three-month rainy season, which ended Sept. 15, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.
China regularly suffers deadly flooding during its summer rainy season despite a network of thousands of miles of river dikes and other protections.
The death toll was far below that of 1998, when 4,150 people were killed in torrential flooding.
Since then, the government has invested heavily in dikes and flood-warnings stations.
