Continuous heavy rain in southwest China's Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality induced flood and landslides on Sunday, sweeping houses, farmland, disrupting traffic and leaving residents stranded.
At Tianjia Town, Sichuan's Neijing City, the floodwater overflowed swollen rivers to submerge streets, houses and farmland.
In response, the local armed police rushed to the flood-hit regions with various rescue equipment and boats to evacuate residents stranded in the flood.
As of 20:00 Sunday, the armed police officers, firemen, militiamen and other police officers had transferred more than 3,700 people of the town to safe places.
Heavy rain also triggered a landslide in Chongqing's Kaizhou District on Sunday, blocking the traffic of a highway which was still closed by 09:00 Monday.
Nearly 200 meters of the road were buried by the rubble of the landslide.
The police closed the road temporarily and the local government arranged staff members to stand guard at the road section around the clock.
The rain stopped on Monday morning and repair work would begin when conditions permit.
On Sunday noon, a senior citizen was stopped on his way to hospital due to the landslide.
Upon receiving an emergency call from his family for help, police officers rushed to the site and successfully transferred the patient to the ambulance after 20 minutes of effort.
Floodwater, landslide sweep houses, farmland, disrupt traffic in southwest China
