Tornado Kills at Least One in Eastern China as Country Faces High Temperatures

A woman wearing a sun protection clothing rides on a bike on a street in Beijing, on July 21, 2022. Andy Wong/AP Photo

BEIJING—A tornado blew through 11 villages in a farming region of eastern China, damaging homes, killing at least one person and injuring 25 others, while swaths of the country face extreme heat.

The homes and property of more than 2,000 people were damaged when the twister struck Wednesday in Jiangsu province south of Beijing.