According to state media reports, at least 30 people have died in Beijing as a result of heavy rains pouring down the country’s capital.
28 people were killed in Miyun and two in Yanqing, according to the official Xinhua state news agency on Tuesday, according to a report released by Beijing’s mountainous northern districts.
According to Xinhua, the city’s municipal flood control headquarters, “30 people have died in Beijing as of midnight Monday due to the most recent round of heavy rainstorms.”
Beijing recorded up to 543mm (21. 3 inches) of rainfall in its northern districts on Monday, according to Xinhua, which started over the weekend and increased throughout the country’s capital and surrounding provinces.
According to Beijing’s national broadcaster CCTV, more than 80, 000 people have been relocated from areas where flooding has damaged dozens of roads and cut power to at least 136 villages.
Early on Tuesday, Beijing is expected to experience the heaviest rain, with up to 300mm (11.8 inches) of rainfall forecast for some areas.
According to reports, authorities ordered the release of water from a reservoir in Beijing’s rural Miyun district, which had reached its highest level since 1959, with residents being warned to stay away from rivers downstream as their levels rose and heavy rain was forecast.
Authorities ordered people to stay indoors, close schools, halt construction work, and halt outdoor tourism and other activities until the emergency warning is lifted, as Chinese President Xi Jinping late on Monday night.
Uprooted trees lay in piles with their exposed roots in piles in Taishitun, which is located about 100 kilometers (60 miles) northeast of central Beijing, according to the Associated Press news agency.
“The flood rushed in very suddenly and quickly, just like that.” The place was quickly filling up, according to Zhuang Zhelin, a local resident who was clearing mud from their building materials store with his family.
Source: Aljazeera
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