BEIJING
\nA landslide in a mountainous area of central China has left eight people dead, state media said on Sunday, as parts of the country were placed on high alert for bad weather. Heavy rain caused a deadly landslide in a village in Hunan province, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
\nFour houses collapsed early on Sunday and all eight missing people \u201chave been found with no vital signs\u201d, the channel said.
\nChina has been experiencing extreme weather conditions and unusually high temperatures in recent months.
\nClimate change driven by human-emitted greenhouse gases makes extreme weather events more frequent and intense, and China is the world\u2019s biggest emitter.
\nMeteorological authorities issued several red alerts \u2013 the highest in China\u2019s four-tier warning system \u2013 for torrential rain on Sunday, including in Hubei and Anhui provinces.
\nDownpours in southern and densely populated Guangdong province sparked inundations and landslides, with at least 38 people killed in China\u2019s manufacturing heartland, state media said on Friday.
\nWhile torrential rains have struck the south, northern China has sweated in temperatures well above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), including in Beijing, where the mercury exceeded 40C (104F) last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BEIJING A landslide in a mountainous area of central China has left eight people dead, state media said on Sunday, as parts of the country were placed on high alert for bad weather. Heavy rain caused a deadly landslide in a village in Hunan province, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Four houses collapsed early on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n