{"id":837317,"date":"2026-09-05T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837317\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T12:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T12:04:18","slug":"typhoon-saudel-days-of-flooding-trigger-fatal-landslide-in-central-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/837317\/","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Saudel: days of flooding trigger fatal landslide in central China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least one person was killed and 11 are missing after they were buried by a landslide in central China as the region continued to battle severe flooding caused by <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3365946\/unprecedented-path-revived-typhoon-saudel-eyes-eastern-and-southern-china?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Typhoon Saudel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The landslide hit Gaoping, a town in a mountainous area of Jiangxi province, at around 4am on Saturday, according to state broadcaster CCTV.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It said rescue teams were rushing to the disaster site.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The accident followed days of torrential rain brought by the outer bands of Typhoon Saudel and a cold front.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Floodwaters have inundated Suichuan county, where the landslide struck, trapping residents, triggering road collapses and severely disrupting essential public services.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The local water supplier issued an emergency notice warning that raw water quality had reached unsafe levels as a result of the floods and advised residents to let their tap water settle in containers before use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person was killed and 11 are missing after they were buried by a landslide in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[71742,39799,192,1023,354522,237100,206885,13130,354519,6318,79,354521,169002,354518,354520],"class_list":["post-837317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-cctv","tag-chongqing","tag-environment","tag-flooding","tag-gaoping","tag-jiangxi","tag-landslide","tag-nepal","tag-pengshui","tag-saturday","tag-science","tag-suichuan","tag-tibet","tag-typhoon-saudel","tag-wu-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}