BEIJING: Affected by Typhoon Doksuri, extreme rainfall was recorded in north China and the regions along the Yellow and Huaihe rivers, triggering floods and geological disasters and causing heavy casualties in Beijing and Hebei.
Data showed that from 8 p.m. on Saturday to 9 a.m. on Tuesday, the average rainfall in Beijing was 261.8 mm, with the maximum rainfall exceeding 700mm at the scenic spot in the Mentougou and Changping Districts.
The Central Meteorological Station (CMS) extended the warning that Mentougou Dis-trict is still in the state of orange alert as of 10 a.m. on Tuesday, the second-highest lev-el. Other districts have been downgraded to yellow rainstorm warning, the third level. To ensure basic life and medical needs of flood victims, an army aviation brigade as-signed to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) 81st Group Army have joined rescue ef-forts to drop essential supplies from the air to inaccessible villages and airlift stranded residents in danger of drowning.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, soldiers and workers were seen busy loading supplies such as instant noodles, bottled water and blankets onto helicopters.
“We have mainly prepared two kinds of supplies. One is food. Considering that running water is hardly available in the affected areas, we have prepared some self-heating in-stant noodles, which can achieve self-cooling just by using bottled water. In addition, in response to the temperature drop, we’ve also prepared things such as raincoats and blan-kets for them to keep warm,” said Xu Lina, spokeswoman for the Wumart Group, a leading Chinese retailer and submarket chain. –The Daily Mail-CGTN news exchange item
