China floods: people still searching for missing relatives after official says four died in road tunnel
- Work to clear the tunnel where hundreds of cars were trapped continued, but a rescue official tells the media that no more bodies have been found
- More than 800,000 people in Henan province have been evacuated and over a million relocated by the authorities
The authorities have not released an official death toll from the tunnel, but news portal ThePaper.cn quoted an unnamed official in charge of rescue operations as saying that his team had checked all of the cars at the site, and found four dead.
The rescuers were continuing to pump water out of the tunnel but no other victims had been found, he was quoted as saying.
However, as on Saturday evening, people continued to post on social media about missing family members who they feared had been trapped in the tunnel as well as at a flooded subway station in the city, where at least 12 people died.
At least 58 people have died, with another five still missing, and the rain has caused economic damage worth 82 billion yuan (US$12.7 billion), according to the local authorities.
