Last month, a woman in Beijing also died from a heat stroke. Health authorities said a tour guide collapsed and died of heat stroke Sunday while giving a tour of the Summer Palace - a vast, 18th century imperial garden. So far, two deaths in Beijing have been attributed to the scorching heat. With its more than 9 million square kilometers (4 million square miles) of land area, China is being hit simultaneously this summer by heatwaves, flooding and drought.Ĭities have opened their air raid shelters to offer residents relief from the heat.Įarlier this week, Beijing reported more than nine straight days with temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), a streak unseen since 1961.Īuthorities have issued health alerts and, in the capital and elsewhere, suspended outdoor work, although many workers continued to deliver packages, lay bricks and haul goods amid fears over a faltering economic recovery. Seasonal flooding is a regular occurrence in China, but this year's rising waters have been accompanied by unusually prolonged stretches of high temperatures.
Tens of thousands of people have been moved to shelters amid heavy flooding in northern, central and southeastern China.
Crews were still excavating in hopes of finding more survivors. BEIJING – Nine people are missing in central China after a landslide sparked by heavy rains amid flooding and searing temperatures across much of the country, authorities said Sunday.įive people were rescued from under the rubble at a highway construction site in the central province of Hubei, where the accident occurred on Saturday.
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