Source: China – South China Morning PostChinese officials have declared 31 people in an elderly care centre in Beijing died during heavy rainfall and flooding, bringing the disaster death toll in China’s capital to 44, while nine people remain missing.
The number of casualties in neighbouring Hebei province has also risen in recent days, indicating the severity and mounting human cost of the emergency which started last week, although no official figures for the province or overall data have been released.
At a press conference on…Read More