According to state media, heavy rain has caused at least 30 fatalities and forced authorities to evacuate tens of thousands of people after torrential downpours caused landslides across northern China.
According to state news agency Xinhua, weather authorities have issued their second-highest rainstorm warning for Beijing, the city’s capital, Hebei and Tianjin, as well as 10 other northern, eastern, and southern provinces.
It added that the rains are anticipated to continue through Wednesday.
According to Xinhua, the most recent round of heavy rainstorms in Beijing had left 30 people dead as of midnight on Monday, citing the city’s municipal flood control headquarters.
Local state-run newspaper Beijing Daily reported on social media that more than 80, 000 people have been evacuated in China’s capital alone.
The suburb of Miyun, which is located northeast of the city center, had the highest death toll, according to the report.
Late on Monday, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged authorities to prepare for worst-case scenarios and immediately relocate residents of flood-traumatized areas.
Local officials “made all-out efforts to search and rescue missing persons… and made every effort to reduce casualties,” according to Beijing Daily.
According to state broadcaster CCTV, the government has allocated 350 million yuan ($48 million) for disaster relief in nine regions that have experienced heavy rains on Tuesday.
Northern Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, northeastern Jilin, eastern Shandong, and southern Guangdong are just a few of them.
According to the broadcaster, the capital has received a separate 200 million yuan ($27 million).
Source: Aljazeera
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