Two dams in China’s northwestern area of Interior Mongolia collapsed after torrential rain, the water ministry stated on Monday, highlighting the security dangers posed by ageing infrastructure through the summer time flood season.
The dams, within the Interior Mongolian metropolis of Hulunbuir, collapsed on Sunday afternoon. That they had shaped reservoirs with a mixed water storage capability of 46 million cubic metres (1.6 trillion cubic toes), the Ministry of Water Sources stated.
Folks residing downstream have been evacuated, with no casualties reported, it stated.
The ministry stated that on common, 87 millimetres (3.4 inches) of rain fell in Hulunbuir over the weekend and as a lot as 223 millimetres on the Morin Dawa monitoring station.
Hulunbuir’s metropolis authorities stated on its WeChat account that 16,660 folks had been affected, with 21,775 hectares (53,807 acres) of farmland submerged. Bridges and different transport infrastructure had additionally been destroyed.