Firefighters rescued dozens of people trapped by flash flood on Friday in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Reuters reports.
Many rivers in Guilin of Guangxi swelled on Friday due to the continuous rainstorms.
In Yangshuo County, a villager was trapped in farmland by surging flood Friday afternoon in Anding Village.
Firefighters took a rubber boat to reach the trapped man who was on a tree surrounded by flash flood.
Firefighters sent the man to safe place in about 30 minutes.
On the same day, dozens of people, including seniors and children, were trapped by flood in Yangshuo County.
Rescuers rushed to the site and found the flood had reached waist high. Rescues divided themselves in to two groups to save the trapped people and all the 34 trapped people were evacuated to safe places after nearly three hours of intense rescue operation.
On the same day, a village in Guigang City was inundated by flood, trapping seven people.
Guided by local residents, firefighters found the trapped people in more than 10 minutes and transferred all of them to safe places with two rubber boats.
A new round of rainstorm has been hitting Guangxi starting from Friday, with red or orange alerts of heavy rain issued in many areas.
China has a four-tier, color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow, and blue.
