Beijing officials say a group of older people trapped in a nursing home that flooded were among the dead in powerful storms that lashed the city and neighboring provinces.

Heavy rains prompted flood warnings as a landslide killed at least 4 people, forcing thousands to evacuate as rising waters caused widespread damage.

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.