Highest-level rainstorm warning issued in south China's Guangdong

Rescuers deliver food by raft to people affected by the heavy rainfall in Lianjiangkou town, Yingde city of south China's Guangdong Province, on April 22, 2024. - Xinhua

BEIJING: More than 100,000 people have been evacuated due to heavy rain and fatal floods in southern China, with the government issuing its highest-level rainstorm warning for the affected area on Tuesday (April 23).

Torrential rains have lashed Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe flooding that state media said could be of the sort only "seen around once a century".