Rescue workers paddle through a flooded street in Beijing on August 1, 2023. Photo by Reuters
Fourteen people are believed to have died over the weekend in the Chinese city of Shulan due to flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri.
Northeast China, Beijing and Hebei province have seen heavy rains and flooding since the typhoon made landfall in southern Fujian province two weeks ago.
The deaths in Shulan, in northeastern Jilin province, add to more than 20 fatalities last week in Beijing and Hebei. The authorities have not yet provided an overall assessment for the whole country.
Three officials were among the dead in Shulan, including a vice mayor of the city of about 587,000 people, state media reported on Sunday.
Water levels in the city have dropped to safe levels and emergency response efforts have been mobilized to relocate residents and repair infrastructure. Power has been restored to 14,305 homes, state media reported.
Regional authorities said sections of the Songhua, northeast China’s main river, and the Nenjiang tributary remained at dangerously high levels.
Electricity has also been restored to many flooded areas in Beijing and Hebei Province. Efforts to regain power in the northeastern provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Liaoning are continuing, state broadcaster CCTV said.
