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© ReutersFlooding in Pingshan village in Nanning’s Hengzhou after heavy rainfall brought by Typhoon Maysak on July 6.
Nanning, the capital of China's south-western Guangxi region, raised its flood-control response to the highest level as rivers and reservoirs swelled with the passage of Typhoon Maysak, Chinese state media said on July 6.

Now a slower-moving tropical storm, Maysak no longer has winds of more than 80.5kmh that lashed Vietnam and China's southern island province of Hainan over the weekend.

But as the storm heads inland and weakens, it will dump the water it sucked up on its way across the South China Sea, triggering catastrophic flooding, Chinese meteorologists say.

The authorities in Nanning, a city of nearly nine million people, raised the flood-control emergency response level to I from III due to "extremely heavy rain", China Central Television reported.



So far, one breach has been reported at a medium-sized reservoir in Nanning's Hengzhou, and people in the area were being evacuated, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing the local authorities.

About 273.6km away in the city of Guigang, flood waters turned a wide road into a lake, submerging cars and cascading in brown torrents down a hill into a building site, a video posted on Chinese social media platform Douyin and verified by Reuters showed.

The water level at the Guigang Hydrological Station had risen to 42m by 12.30pm local time, the Ministry of Water Resources said in a statement.

Further south in Fangchenggang, another verified video showed a small car being washed down a street. In the same footage, the water rose to the level of another car's steering wheel, and a man could be seen struggling to keep his electric scooter from being swept away.

Reuters