The large manufacturing and commercial city has issued emergency orders to help cope with the swelling crowds and called on local universities and other public facilities to provide shelter for stranded passengers, it said.
"We're trying to provide them with food and water, but several have passed out in the cold, including a new mother and her one-month-old baby," said Huang Zhengfu, secretary-general with the prefectural government.Įlsewhere, up to 150,000 passengers were stuck at the Guangzhou railway station, the southern end of the key rail link to the capital Beijing, with numbers expected to grow to up to 600,000, the Southern Metropolitan Daily reported. The local government said bad weather had also stranded more than 40,000 passengers in at least 5,000 broken-down vehicles on highways between Guizhou and the neighbouring Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In the mountainous Guizhou Province in the south-west, a hospital in the capital city of Guiyang has received at least 1,500 patients in the last five days, most suffering fractures after falling on slippery roads.
Heavy snow in south-central China, meanwhile, snarled roads, railways and airports with the bad weather expected to worsen as millions of travellers head home for the Lunar New Year holiday, known elsewhere as Chinese New Year. The conditions brought traffic to a standstill in eight provinces, cut off a key rail link and left thousands of vehicles marooned on icy highways, reports said, with the cold snap causing power cuts across more than half the country.Ī bus that overturned on an icy freeway in eastern Jiangxi Province left five dead early Sunday, including at least two children, the official Xinhua news agency said, with sub-zero temperatures forecast for the next three days.
The worst snows to hit parts of China for 50 years have killed at least a dozen people over the weekend, state media said, with thousands more injured as they headed home for the Lunar New Year holiday.
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