Drone Rescues Man From Floodwaters, Spotlighting China's Disaster-Tech Response
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Footage shows a large quadcopter plucking a flood-stranded man from an oil tanker in Guangxi and lifting him to safety, underscoring drone-enabled rescue capabilities; authorities also used telecomm drones to restore internet connectivity in flooded areas while Typhoon Maysak battered southern China, with other disasters including snakes released by rising waters, a tornado in Hubei, and landslides in Gansu testing emergency response.
- Wild Video Shows Quadcopter Drone Plucking Man From Raging Floodwaters, Whisking Him to Safety Futurism
- Typhoon, tornadoes, landslides: deadly weather ravages China – in pictures The Guardian
- Flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak kills 39 in southern China Al Jazeera
- Man blown from 12th-floor apartment as deadly tornado rips through central China. CNN
- Flooding in southern China has killed 39 people AP News
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