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Beijing, Sep 12 (EFE).- More than 70 crocodiles have escaped from a farm in southern China amid persistent rain, prompting authorities to restrict residents to their homes and ban fishing activities in the area, state media said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in the city of Maoming in the southern Guangdong province, after severe rainstorms …
BEIJING (AP) — Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm.
Intense rainstorms dumped 4 months of rain on Maoming, China, in just two days, causing 75 crocodiles to escape their enclosure into floodwaters.
An emergency official was quoted as saying that 69 adult crocodiles and six juveniles had escaped. Some have been captured, but the operation was difficult because of the depth of a lake they are in, the media reports said.
Chinese emergency teams are scrambling to track down a large number of crocodiles that escaped after heavy storms and floods that hit in recent days.