{"id":16933,"date":"2025-08-18T03:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16933"},"modified":"2025-08-18T03:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T03:04:03","slug":"9-dead-3-missing-in-north-china-flash-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16933","title":{"rendered":"9 dead, 3 missing in north China flash flood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A flash flood in Inner Mongolia killed nine people and left three missing, Chinese state media said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 13 people were camping outdoors in Inner Mongolia&#8217;s Urat Rear Banner when a flash flood occurred around 10 pm (1400 GMT) on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua said.<\/p>\n<p>As of Sunday afternoon, one person had been rescued and over 700 workers were &#8220;urgently&#8221; searching for the missing, Xinhua added.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Emergency Management has ordered full-scale rescue efforts, verification of the status of the missing, and dispatched a working group to the scene, state broadcaster CCTV said.<\/p>\n<p>Natural disasters are common across China, particularly in the summer, when some regions experience heavy rain while others bake in searing heat.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from flash floods and mudslides in northwest China in early August was at least 13, state media said previously.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain in Beijing in the north also killed 44 people last month, with the capital&#8217;s rural suburbs hardest hit, and another eight people died in a landslide in nearby Hebei province. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flash flood in Inner Mongolia killed nine people and left three missing, Chinese state media said Sunday. A group of 13 people were camping outdoors in Inner Mongolia&#8217;s Urat Rear Banner when a flash flood occurred around 10 pm (1400 GMT) on Saturday, state news agency Xinhua said. As of Sunday afternoon, one person [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}