{"id":239065,"date":"2026-07-09T05:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239065\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T05:31:09","slug":"flooding-in-southern-china-has-killed-39-people-ap-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/239065\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding in southern China has killed 39 people | Ap-world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people have died in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-tropical-storm-maysak-rain-flooding-18959154a068bf186f04fe6dea882c16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flooding<\/a> from Tropical Storm Maysak.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the deaths were related to the breach of a dam in the city of Nanning in Guangxi region, which claimed 26 lives, said Ding Wei, the city&#8217;s vice mayor, at a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>Maysak brought record rainfall to the area, breaching reservoirs and stranding people for days in homes and other buildings. The previously announced death toll was six people.<\/p>\n<p>Drones and thousands of boats have been used in a massive relief and rescue operation to reach people trapped by the waters. About 130,000 people have been evacuated.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BEIJING (AP) \u2014 Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people have died in flooding from Tropical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[30848,119,121,120,102830,49,93457,38,93458,9057,102829,10324,1133,301],"class_list":["post-239065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-accidents","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dam-and-levee-breaches","tag-evacuations","tag-floods","tag-general-news","tag-hurricanes-and-typhoons","tag-natural-disasters","tag-typhoon-maysak-bavi-china-taiwan-flooding","tag-waterways","tag-weather","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}