Local residents are walking in front of a damaged road strewn with broken tree branches after high rain in the city of Taishitun, Miyun district on the outskirts of Beijing, China on Monday.
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Taishitun, China – Strong rains and floods killed 30 people in Beijing, the authorities of the Chinese capital on Tuesday, bringing the number of dead from the region’s storms to at least 34.
A statement from the city government said 28 people died in its Miyun district and two others in the Yanqing district at midnight. Both are peripheral parts of the sprawling city, far from the city center.
More heavy rains fell overnight in the region. More than 80,000 people were moved to Beijing, including around 17,000 in Miyun, according to the press release.
Information said on Monday that a landslide killed four people in a rural part of the County Lanping in the neighboring province of Hebei. Eight others lacked. A resident told the news in Beijing supported by the State that communications were down and that he could not reach his relatives.
The storms had dropped more than 16 centimeters (6 inches) of rain on average in Beijing on Tuesday midnight, with two cities of Miyun recording 54 centimeters (21 inch) of precipitation, said the city.
Miyun authorities have released water from a reservoir which has been at its highest level since its construction in 1959. The authorities warned people to stay far from downstream rivers as their levels increased and higher rains were planned.
Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang said on Monday that heavy rains and floods in Miyun had caused “serious victims” and called for rescue efforts, according to the Xinhua news agency in China.
The storm eliminated power in more than 130 villages in Beijing, destroys communication lines and damaged more than 30 sections of road.
Strong floods took away the cars and shot down from power posts to Miyun, which borders the county of Hebei’s Luanping.
The uprooted trees were in heaps with their bare roots exhibited in the city of Taishitun, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of the Beijing center. The streets were covered with water, mud left higher on the walls of the buildings.
“The deluge entered inside, like that, so quickly and suddenly. In no time, the place was filling up,” said Zhuang Zhelin, who cleaned the mud with his family from their building materials store.
Next to it, the neighbor of Zhuang, Wei Zhengming, a traditional practitioner of Chinese medicine, would shovel mud in her clinic; His feet in slippers were covered with mud.
“It was all water, in the front and back. I didn’t want to do anything. I’m just running upstairs and I waited for the rescue. I remember thinking, if no one came to get us, we would really have trouble,” said Wei.
The Beijing authorities launched a high -level emergency intervention on Monday, ordering people to stay inside, close schools, suspend construction work and stop outdoors and other activities until the response is lifted.
Beijing’s heaviest rain was expected early Tuesday, with precipitation up to 30 centimeters (12 inches) for certain areas.
10,000 other people were evacuated from the neighboring Jizhou district under the city of Tianjin, Xinhua reported.
The central government said in a statement that he had sent 50 million yuan (around $ 7 million) to Hebei and sent a high -level team of emergency respondents to help affected cities, including Chengde, Baoding and Zhangjiakou.
Beijing and Hebei suffered serious floods in 2023.
