Almost a yr’s value of rain caused flooding and landslides that washed away cars, forced evacuations and knocked out power across the Chinese capital, killing a minimum of 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 within the hard-hit Beijing district of Miyun caused “serious casualties” and called for rescue efforts, in line with the Xinhua News Agency.
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The Beijing Each day, a state-backed paper, reported that the town had received 54.3 centimetres (21.4 inches) of rain within the last 4 days, which is only a bit wanting the 60 centimetres (23.6 inches) the town receives annually in a yr.
The storm knocked out power in greater than 130 villages in Beijing, destroyed communication lines and damaged greater than 30 sections of road. Greater than 16 centimetres (six inches) of rain fell on average in Beijing by midnight, with two towns in Miyun recording 54 centimeters (21 inches) of precipitation, the town said.
Heavy flooding washed away cars and downed power poles in Miyun, an outlying district that borders Hebei’s Luanping county. Greater than 80,000 people have been relocated in Beijing, including about 17,000 in Miyun, a Beijing city statement said.
The town government said 28 people died in Miyun and two others in Yanqing district Monday.
4 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 a part of Luanping county within the province. Authorities had found 4 of the dead Monday.
Emergency rescue teams said more landslides occurred in the identical region Tuesday, although they didn’t report any further casualties.
Uprooted trees lay in piles within the town of Taishitun, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of central Beijing. Streets were covered with water, with mud left higher up on the partitions of buildings.
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