At least 14 people are dead after torrential rain hit China’s north-eastern Jilin province, state media has reported, in the latest fatalities from more than a week of weather-related disasters across the country. Thousands of troops have been sent into…
A fire at a hospital in Beijing has killed at least 29 people and forced dozens to evacuate, a Chinese government official has said. As clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky late on Tuesday, people trapped in the…
Twelve people have been detained by police for questioning after a hospital fire in Beijing killed at least 29, most of them patients. The fire, among the deadliest in recent years, broke out in Changfeng Hospital at about 13:00 local…
At least 17 people were killed and four are missing after flooding hit the central Chinese province of Hunan and a landslide buried parts of several villages in the southern Guangxi region, state media reported. Storms have pummeled Hunan since…