- Nearly 900 snakes, including venomous cobras, escaped a breeding farm in Hengzhou, southern China, after it was inundated by floods triggered by Typhoon Maysak.
- One local villager was bitten by an escaped reptile and is currently receiving emergency medical treatment.
- Emergency teams have been deployed to capture the snakes, and residents are warned to avoid flooded areas and refrain from attempting to catch the reptiles themselves.
- Widespread flooding across southern and central China has resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of thousands of evacuations.
- President Xi Jinping has ordered comprehensive rescue and relief efforts, with meteorologists cautioning that China faces “complex” disaster prevention challenges this year due to global warming and El Niño.
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