Bags and shoes are left to dry outside a warehouse in the aftermath of flooding at a village after heavy rains in Zhuozhou city, in northern China’s Hebei province on August 9, 2023. / AFP
Thirty-three people have been confirmed dead and 18 are still missing after Beijing’s heaviest rains on record, officials said Wednesday.
China’s capital has been hit by record downpours in recent weeks, damaging infrastructure and deluging swaths of the city’s suburbs and surrounding areas.
Floods in China’s southwestern Sichuan province also killed seven people on Wednesday, state media reported.
Authorities in the capital said on Wednesday that 33 had died in the recent bad weather in Beijing, mainly by flooding and buildings collapsing, almost three times the figure given by officials on Tuesday last week.
“I would like to express my deep condolences to those who died in the line…
