Heavy Rains and Flooding Kill At Least 34 People in Beijing

State publisher CCTV, as of midnight in the hard -stroke Miyun region of Beijing and Yanqing region, two people died, he said. Both are far from the city center of the expanding city.

In the region, more severe rain fell overnight. According to a CCTV online report, more than 80,000 people have moved in Beijing, including about 17,000 people in Miyun.

In a statement on Monday, a landslide in the neighboring Hebei state killed four people and eight people are still missing, he said. The victims in Hebei were caught in a rural part of the Luanping district. A resident said that communication to Beijing News with a state -backed news has fallen and could not reach relatives.

The authorities released water from a reservoir in the Miyun region, which was at the highest level since it was built in 1959. Authorities warned people to stay away from rivers as their levels increase and more heavy rain are estimated.

The heavy flood washed the cars in Miyun, which limits the Luanping district of Hebei, and dropped the power poles.

China’s prime minister Li Qiang said on Monday that the heavy rain and Selin in Miyun have caused “serious losses ve and China called for rescue efforts according to the Xinhua news agency.

The roasted trees lay in piles with the bare roots exposed to Taishitun, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) of the center of Beijing. The streets were covered with water, the mud remained higher on the wall.

“The Tufan hurriedly and suddenly hurriedly. He was never filling a place,” he said.

Zhuang’s neighbor, Wei Zhenging, on the side, was pulling mud in a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, clinic; His feet in slippers were covered with mud.

Wei said, “They were all water, front and back. I didn’t want to do anything. I just ran up and waited to save.

Beijing officials launched a high -level emergency intervention at 20.00 on Monday, stopped open -air tourism and other events until the people stay inside, close schools, suspend construction work and response.

In the early hours of Tuesday, the heaviest rain in Beijing was expected for some regions with 30 centimeters (12 inch).

Xinhua reported that 10,000 people were released from the nearby Jizhou region under the city of Tianjin.

The central government said in a statement that he sent 50 million Yuan (about 7 million dollars) to Hebei and added a high -level emergency response teams to help affected cities such as Baoding and Zhangjiakou.

Beijing and Hebei experienced serious floods in 2023.