Heavy rains and flooding in northern China killed 4 people while others remain missing, officials said Monday, amid flood warnings and evacuations.
The victims were caught in a landslide in a rural a part of Luanping county within the province of Hebei, which borders the capital, Beijing, based on state broadcaster CCTV. Eight remain missing. A neighborhood resident told the state-backed Beijing News that communications were down and he couldn’t reach his relatives.
Hebei officials had issued flood warnings on July 25 resulting from heavy rains. Beijing and the neighboring city of Tianjin followed with their very own warnings on Monday.
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Within the district of Miyun, a suburban a part of Beijing, floodwaters swept away parked cars in an apartment complex, based on CCTV footage. Officials told the Beijing Each day they’d evacuated 4,015 people to avoid the floods and that there have been no casualties as a water reservoir within the district recorded its highest water level since record-keeping began in 1951.
In Tianjin, some 5,600 people were also moved elsewhere for fear of floods, reported CCTV.
The meteorological bureau issued a warning Monday, saying that some places on the outskirts of Beijing might be hit with as much as 25 cm (9.84 inches) of rain in in the future.
The central government said in a press release it had sent 50 million yuan (about $7 million) to Hebei and dispatched a high-level team of emergency responders to assist the affected cities, which include Chengde, Baoding, and Zhangjiakou.
Beijing and Hebei suffered severe flooding in 2023.
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