Meanwhile, the water flow into the Danjiangkou Reservoir from the Hanjiang River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, in the northern part of Hubei province, peaked at a rate of 34,100 cubic meters per second on Sunday, the highest in almost three decades, according to local disaster relief officials.
The reservoir's water levels are expected to surge to at least 155 meters on Tuesday, some six meters above the reservoir's danger level.
Rescue officials reported that by Monday in Shaanxi an 80 meter breach in the banks of the Luofu River, a tributary of the Weihe River, had been successfully sealed after being triggered by heavy rainfall on Saturday.
While a total of 6,404 people from 1,587 households in Huayin were evacuated before the flood on early Saturday, no casualties were reported.
Floods and other rain-triggered disasters in Shaanxi disrupted nearly all trains to and from the Lhasa region of Tibet, which pass through Shaanxi, over the past two weeks, Wang Doje, a Lhasa Railway Station official, said on Monday.
In Henan, heavy downpours over the weekend left 37 dead and 19 missing, and forced the famous Longmen Grottos to close on Monday.
Rain has also lashed the mountainous city of Jinggangshan, known as the cradle of the Chinese Communist revolution, in East China's Jiangxi province, flooding the streets with knee-high water on Monday. No casualties were reported.
(Source: China Daily)
