{"id":300477,"date":"2025-07-29T06:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300477\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T06:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:16:13","slug":"china-floods-30-killed-in-beijing-after-days-of-heavy-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/300477\/","title":{"rendered":"China floods: 30 killed in Beijing after days of heavy rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flood came &#8216;so fast and suddenly&#8217;published at 04:30 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>04:30 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People walking among debris along a river bank\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/194b299f-3fbb-46d1-89d8-92c1951482a1.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Reuters<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A resident in Miyun, a suburban district in Beijing, told AFP that he watched as floodwaters swept away vehicles outside his apartment on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People and a pet dog were lifted to safety with a crawler, AFP reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The flood came rushing in, just like that, so fast and suddenly,&#8221; Zhuang Zhelin, a shopowner in Taishitun near Beijng, told the Associated Press. &#8220;In no time at all, the place was filling up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the traditional Chinese medicine clinic next door, Zhuang&#8217;s neighbour Wei Zhengming said when the floods came he &#8220;just ran upstairs and waited for rescue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I remember thinking, if no one came to get us, we&#8217;d be in real trouble,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flood came &#8216;so fast and suddenly&#8217;published at 04:30 British Summer Time 04:30 BST Image source, Reuters A resident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-300477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114935063207526610","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}