Extreme rains and flooding across northern China have killed 60 people, more than half of them at a care home for the elderly in a suburb of Beijing, which has grappled with its deadliest flood disaster in years.

Beijing’s reeling from catastrophic floods that killed 30 people—28 in Miyun district and two in Yanqing—as of July 29, 2025, with four more deaths in a Hebei landslide. Over 40,000 have been evacuated as the Miyun reservoir hit its highest level since 1959.

Beijing city officials have admitted failures in their response to heavy flooding that killed 31 residents of a care home.