More than 30 killed in a nursing home

The flood killed 31 residents at a home care for the elderly on the outskirts of Beijing this week, local officials said.

Shots have shown that emergency teams are moving through high -breast water, trying to save those who are caught in the home in the Muyun neighborhood. Many of the dead were stationary.

Local officials have admitted that there are “doors in emergency planning” and said the incident is a painful lesson that served as a “wake -up call”.

A total of 44 people were killed in the Beijing floods that came in the summer of an exceptional time in China. The record heat waves affected the eastern regions earlier this month, while individual floods swept the southwestern part of the country.

About 77 elderly residents were inside the home when the floods hit, capturing about 40 of them, as water levels increased to almost 2 m (6 feet), according to Chinese media.

The facility – located in the city of Tishitun – takes care of those who are severely disabled, with low incomes or receive minimal life allowances, local media reported.

“For a long time, the central area of the nursing home is considered safe, so it is not included in the evacuation range of the plan,” a Chinese press conference said on Thursday.

“This reveals that there are doors in our emergency planning. Our understanding of extreme time is insufficient and this painful lesson has served as awakening.”

In the nearby Hebey province, 16 people were killed as a result of extreme rainfall, officials said. Eight were killed in Cende, 18 still not reported.

Beijing is no stranger to the flood, especially during the summer months. One of the most deadly in the recent memory happened in July 2012, when 190 mm rain blew the city in one day, killing 79 people.

This summer, floods caused chaos in the elimination of China.

Two people were killed and 10 people disappeared in Shandong Province earlier this month when Typhoon VIFA struck Eastern China. Two weeks earlier, a landslide killed three people in the town of Yang, in the southwestern part of the country.

The extreme time that experts associate with climate change is increasingly threatened by the residents and economy of China – especially in the agriculture of trillion dollars.

Natural disasters in the first half of the year have cost China 54.11 billion yuan ($ 7.5 billion; $ 5.7 billion), the Ministry of Emergency Management said earlier this month. The flood represents over 90% of the losses, she added.