Flooding rain in China’s north leaves two people dead and displaces thousands | China

The heavy rain around Beijing and the Northern China killed two people, and the authorities forced thousands of people to move while warning the risk of disaster, including more common rain and landslides and floods.

The state publisher CCTV reported on Sunday morning, two people were killed and two people are missing in the state of Hebei. The nightgown rain broke a record of 145 mm per hour in Fuping County in the city of Baoding, the industrial city.

The Chinese Ministry of Water has published targeted flood warnings for floods from small and medium -sized rivers and mountain floods, including Beijing and neighboring Hebei.

Floods and landslides affected many villages in the Miyun region of the capital, the most severely affected by the rural town Fengjiayu and in some villages, electricity and communication were cut. Beijing News Radio said on Sunday, more than 3,000 people were transferred from the region, he said.

Beijing issued a warning for geological disasters, including landslides and mud shifts, after opening heavy rainfall on Saturday, and the second time on the nearby Baoding rained for a year.

Northern China has experienced a record rain in recent years and has exposed to flood risks of densely populated cities, including Beijing. Some scientists often connect China’s arid rainfall in the north to global warming.

Storms are part of the wider weather in China due to the East Asian Muson, which causes interruptions in the second largest economy in the world.

Baoding’s Xizhuang station recorded 540 mm in eight hours and exceeded Baoding’s annual average rainfall. CCTV reported that the flood affected more than 46,000 people and forced 4.655 to evacuate.

Chinese authorities closely monitor excessive rainfall and severe floods threaten millions of people to displace the country’s aging flood defenses and to harm a trillion -dollar agricultural sector.