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submitted 5 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Three people died after typhoon-like winds pulled them out through their apartment windows in southern China, as extreme weather battered the region over the past week.

A total of seven people had died in Jiangxi province since the exceptionally strong winds began on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. More than 5,400 houses were damaged and 313,000 people affected, of whom about 1,600 had to be evacuated to safety, it added.

The Chinese meteorological authority issued an orange alert - the highest on its three-tier warning system – on Tuesday, the first since 2013, according to the state-run Global Times.

Four deaths and at least 10 injuries were reported in the provincial capital Nanchang, the hardest-hit city, when severe thunderstorms and heavy rains hit on Sunday, according to CCTV.

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[-] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

God damn, that's awful. Pretty messed up that the people and companies that lied to us for over 50 years about climate change not only aren't held accountable, but still getting richer and richer by actively making the problems worse. We'll see more and more human beings lost as things continue to get worse (especially in places where the weather is unprecedented and aren't built to withstand that kind of weather).

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