At least 30 dead in Beijing after days of heavy rain
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Days of heavy rain have killed at least 30 people in the northern outskirts of Beijing, state media reported Tuesday.
More than 80,000 people have been relocated in the Chinese capital, with dozens of roads damaged and electricity cut off for 136 villages, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has instructed officials to make every effort to search and rescue those still missing, properly settle the relocated and made every effort to reduce casualties.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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- Washington Post
Heavy rain causes flooding, evacuations and at least 38 deaths around Beijing region
BEIJING — Almost a year's worth of rain caused flooding and landslides that washed away cars, forced evacuations and knocked out power around the Chinese capital, killing at least 38 people by Tuesday and rescue and relief work continued. The flood risk for parts of Beijing, Hebei province and neighboring Tianjin city remained high until Tuesday evening. State media broadcast footage of muddy waters rising into homes in rural areas and rescuers carrying an injured person on a stretcher and searching on a damaged road. Premier Li Qiang said the heavy rain and flooding in the hard-hit Beijing district of Miyun caused 'serious casualties' and called for rescue efforts, according to the Xinhua News Agency. The Beijing Daily, a state-backed paper, reported that the city had received 54.3 centimeters (21.4 inches) of rain in the last four days, which is just a bit short of the 60 centimeters (23.6 inches) the city receives annually in a year. The storm knocked out power in more than 130 villages in Beijing, destroyed communication lines and damaged more than 30 sections of road. More than 16 centimeters (6 inches) of rain fell on average in Beijing by midnight, with two towns in Miyun recording 54 centimeters (21 inches) of precipitation, the city said. Heavy flooding washed away cars and downed power poles in Miyun, an outlying district that borders Hebei's Luanping county. More than 80,000 people have been relocated in Beijing, including about 17,000 in Miyun, a Beijing city statement said. The city government said 28 people died in Miyun and two others in Yanqing district Monday. Four additional people in neighboring Hebei province were discovered dead Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, after eight people were said to be missing after a landslide in a rural part of Luanping county in the province. Authorities had found four of the dead Monday. Emergency rescue teams said more landslides occurred in the same region Tuesday, although they did not report any further casualties. Uprooted trees lay in piles in the town of Taishitun , about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of central Beijing. Streets were covered with water, with mud left higher up on the walls of buildings.
UPI
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- UPI
Flooding kills at least 40 in and around Beijing, many still missing
Bystanders inspect a washed-up car in Taishitun, in Miyun, Beijing, on Tuesday, following deadly flooding in and around the Chinese capital. Photo by Andres Martinez Casares/EPA July 29 (UPI) -- At least 40 people were killed in Beijing after the Chinese capital was hit with severe floods following days of heavy rain across the north of the country, authorities said Tuesday. Most of the casualties were in the hilly northern suburb of Miyun, with 80,000 evacuated to safety, 130 surrounding villages without power and many areas cut off as roads became impassable. Two people were killed in Yanqing, also in the city's north. A further eight people were confirmed killed in a landslide in Chengde city, 140 miles northeast of Beijing, after six months of rain fell over the weekend. Four people are unaccounted for. The body of a passenger from a bus that went missing in Shanxi Province, southwest of Beijing, on Sunday was recovered from a river, but authorities have yet to find the bus and 13 other people riding it. With more heavy rainfall forecast for Tuesday evening local time, President Xi Jinping called for an "all-out" effort by search and rescue teams to find the missing. "No effort should be spared to search for and rescue those missing or trapped, to transfer and resettle residents in affected areas, and to reduce casualties to the greatest extent possible," the president said. Anhui and the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, as well as Shanghai, were under a Level IV emergency response alert due to approaching typhoon Co-May, with its center currently 300 miles southeast of Shanghai in the East China Sea and moving at around 9 m.p.h. Co-May is gathering strength and is expected to bring heavy rain ahead of coming ashore between Zhoushan and Ningbo in Zhejiang Province sometime during Wednesday, with a possible second landfall in Shanghai's Pudong New Area or Fengxian District. Southern China was also hit. Hong Kong was particularly affected by rainfall in excess of 4 inches an hour, forcing schools to close and authorities to issue landslide alerts and shutter parts of the subway system. Conditions in the north and coastal regions contrasted with other areas of the country, which have been placed under heat alerts with temperatures forecast to top 40 degrees Celsius during the next seven-day period.
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- NBC News
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BEIJING — At least 38 people have died in the Chinese capital region after it was battered by almost a year's worth of rain in a handful of days, setting off flooding and landslides, cutting off power and forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. The heaviest toll was reported in the Chinese capital of Beijing, where 30 people died, followed by its neighboring province of Hebei with eight fatalities, state-run broadcaster CCTV reported Tuesday. Intense rainstorms started to hit many parts of northern China as early as Friday, according to the country's Meteorological Administration. In an order issued on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country was at a 'critical' stage of its summer flood season, urging local officials to prioritize saving lives. The Chinese central government said Tuesday that it had allocated 350 million yuan ($48 million) in disaster relief funds to flood-struck places such as Beijing and Hebei. The heaviest downpours in Beijing occurred in the mountainous northern districts of Miyun, where 28 people died, and Yanqing, where two people died, officials said Tuesday, calling the extreme weather event 'rare and highly destructive.' By midnight on Monday, parts of Miyun had received up to about 21 inches of rain, state-backed newspaper Beijing News reported, almost as much as the approximately 23 inches Beijing receives all year. The rain prompted Beijing officials to issue the highest level of rainstorm alert for the first time this year. The rain damaged over 30 sections of road and cut off power in more than 130 villages, and about 80,000 Beijing residents were evacuated to safety, CCTV said. A man surnamed Dong, whose home in Miyun district was flooded, said the waters had carried away his washing machine and two cars. 'I'm 70 and I've never seen such a big flood,' Dong told Sky News on Tuesday. 'If me and my wife didn't climb up to the roof, it would be over for us,' he added. Li Xiaoya, a 27-year-old editor in Beijing, said he was on a weekend trip to Miyun with his friends when they were woken up early Sunday by their homestay host and told to evacuate. 'I stepped outside only to find that the streets were flooded,' Li told NBC News via messaging app on Tuesday. 'I waded through the water to reach the main road, where I saw that most of the villagers had already evacuated to higher ground.' Li and his fellow travelers drove back to the city safely when daylight broke and the water level largely dropped. As of 7 a.m. Tuesday local time (7 p.m. Monday ET), Beijing had lowered its rainstorm alert, allowing parks and tourist attractions to reopen. While the extreme weather in the north is set to gradually weaken, heavy rain will shift to eastern China as the coastal region braces for Typhoon Co-may which is expected to land Wednesday, CCTV reported. Beijing frequently experiences flooding in summer. In 2023, severe flooding in the city left at least 33 people dead, according to the state-run newspaper People's Daily.
