Over 3.07 MILLION people need to be relocated and over 600 dead from a storm.
Do I hear the UN wanting to rush emergency aid to this location in China? Do I hear anything in the news about flood mitigation programs that might prevent something like this from happening again?
Not really!
We have a tragedy of epic proportions happening in China that barely receives a mention.
I guess a scrap in the Middle East and its consequences is more likely to sell newspapers and advertising. Or am I just being cynical?
China's storm toll climbs past 600
State media says the death toll in China from Tropical Storm Bilis has risen to 612 with another 208 people missing, in another major reassessment of the impact of the devastating floods. Xinhua news agency, citing the nation's disaster relief commission, gave no reason for the sudden jump in the casualty numbers from the storm, which first struck south and central China on July 14.
The revised numbers came after the government raised the death toll to 530 on Friday (local time), up from 228 reported just a day earlier.
Local officials were quoted by state media as saying the fast-rising death toll could be because authorities were initially focused on disaster relief rather than counting bodies. However, concerns that there may have been a cover-up have been raised. The government of central China's Hunan province, which bore the brunt of the destruction from Bilis, warned on Saturday that officials who tried to hide the death toll would be punished.
The commission says a total of 3.07 million people have had to be relocated due to the storm.
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