Watch Video: Terrifying Moment Heavy Flood Washed Away 5-Storey Building In China

A shocking footage showing the moment a 5-storey building in Tibet, China was washed away by flood has surfaced online.

In the video, a heavy red truck abandoned by its driver was also washed away following the heavy rain in Tibet that eroded foundations, including that of a five-storey apartment block. The moment the building toppled into a surging river was caught on camera but luckily enough, all occupants of the building were evacuated long before the collapse.

 Tibet’s Changdu City was hit, with the local Ziqu River eroding its banks and bursting out over surrounding terrain at the weekend. The river, held back in part by a bridge, gradually ate away the soil away beneath the yellow waterfront structure before moving to erode the foundation of the building.According to China Central Television, the region’s heavy rains have washed away more than 57km of roads, damaged 24 bridges and cut power lines. Authorities said yesterday that floods and landslides have also killed scores of people in China’s central Hunan province as two weeks of torrential rains forced 1.6 million to flee. About 53,000 homes have collapsed while nearly 350,000 others were seriously or partially damaged after 11 straight days of rain, according to Tang Biyu, deputy director of Hunan’s civil affairs department.


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