During the\u00a0 C<\/a>hina floods<\/a>,\u00a0 around 1.75 million residents across the area have been affected by the floods, with 120,000 safely evacuated while 15 lost their lives and around millions of people remain displaced.<\/p>\n This was unseasonably torrential rain and flooding in north China’s Shanxi province earlier this month, local officials said Tuesday, after the normally dry region received three months’ rain in one week.<\/p>\n The flooding submerged the coal-rich landlocked region during a nationwide energy crunch, and after record, floods killed more than 300 people in central Henan province in July.<\/p>\n At least 60 coal mines in the province – one of China’s top coal-producing regions — had temporarily closed due to the floods, but now all but four have returned to normal operation, local emergency management official Wang Qirui said at a press conference.<\/p>\n Wang said around 19,000 buildings were destroyed by the extreme weather, with 18,000 others “seriously damaged”.<\/p>\n “Fifteen people died due to the disaster, and three people remain missing,” he added.<\/p>\n At least 1.75 million residents across the province have been affected by the floods, with 120,000 safely evacuated, according to Wang.\u00a0 Shanxi received more than three times the average monthly rainfall for October in just five days last week, with the provincial government saying precipitation had broken records in multiple localities.<\/p>\n