7月7日中午12时30分许，安顺一辆公交车坠入虹山湖水库。当地各部门正在全力以赴组织救援，部分落水人员已送医院救治。另据央视新闻报道，发生事故的车辆是当地的2路公交车，确定有高考学生在车内。车辆为2019年新购入电动公交车，车牌号为贵G02086D。
据央视新闻下午发布的消息，截至7日下午17时30分，共搜救出36人，其中21人死亡、15人受伤，伤员已全部转往医院救治。
Twenty-one people have died and 15 people have been taken to hospital after a city bus they were travelling on crashed into a reservoir in southern China, local authorities said.
▌reservoir 水库
A bus carrying high school students plunged into a reservoir on in southwest China on Tuesday, as days of torrential rain triggered flood warnings across large parts of the country and disrupted the first day of national college exams.▌torrential rain 暴雨；倾盆大雨
In the central city of Wuhan, where the coronavirus epidemic first erupted in December, a record-breaking 426 millimetres (16.8 inches) of rain fell on Sunday, the official China Daily reported, and authorities were using giant pumps to remove water from the flooded roads.
State broadcaster CCTV said the students on a bus that crashed into a reservoir in the city of Anshun in southwestern Guizhou province had been on their way to sit the college entry exams. The number of casualties had still to be confirmed.
But as of last Friday, there were 119 people dead or missing nationwide as a result of the rains storms, while the emergency ministry estimated economic losses to be in excess of 40 billion yuan ($5.70 billion).
Guizhou, Anhui, Hunan and Hubei provinces were expected to record 250-280 millimetres (10-11 inches) on Tuesday, according to the China Meteorological Administration.▌meteorological 气象的；气象学的
With nearly 11 million students set to sit their college exams, the weather agency warned parents to heed forecasts and prepare school journeys carefully.
Exams in some parts of Anhui province were postponed as a result of the worst flooding for 50 years, the local government reported.
The city of Qianjiang in the central province of Hubei became the first city to issue a Level I flood response alert on Monday after roads and farmland were inundated.
Authorities in Hubei and neighbouring Hunan province have also issued orange flood alerts - the second highest - with some rivers 2-3 metres higher than warning levels, according to water ministry data.
