Horror vids show floods swamp China turning roads into rapids with at least 38 killed and 80k evacuated from Beijing
At least 38 people have been killed and more than 80,000 residents were forced to evacuate after the
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Murky water submerged homes, cars and roads
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Swaths of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours
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Weather authorities have issued their second-highest rainstorm warning for the capital
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A drone view shows partially submerged village houses and other buildings after heavy rainfall flooded the area
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Swaths of northern China were lashed by torrential downpours that sparked landslides and flooding, state media said on Tuesday.
Footage shows a powerful gush of water flooding the streets.
Murky water submerged
homes
,
cars
and roads - even highways.
Uprooted trees lay in piles in the town of Taishitun, about 60 miles northeast of central Beijing.
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Weather
authorities have issued their second-highest rainstorm warning for the capital and neighbouring Hebei and Tianjin - as well as 10 other provinces, state
news
agency Xinhua reports.
The rains are expected to last till Wednesday, it added.
The heavy rainstorms have so far killed at least 38 people in Beijing.
And more than 80,000 people have been evacuated in the Chinese capital alone, local state-run outlet Beijing Daily said on social media.
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The death toll was highest in Miyun, a suburban district northeast of the city centre, it said.
Locals have said that the "rain was unusually heavy, it's not normally like this."
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One resident of Beijing described the floods as something seen "once in a hundred years".
Nearby, spillways gushed with torrents of water leading out of the Miyun Reservoir, which authorities said has reached its highest levels since its construction in 1959.
Huairou district in the north of the city and Fangshan in the southwest were also badly affected, state media said.
Dozens of roads have been closed and over 130 villages have lost electricity, Beijing Daily said.
"Please pay attention to weather forecasts and warnings and do not go to risk areas unless necessary," the outlet said.
More than 10,000 people also evacuated their homes in the neighbouring port city of Tianjin, which saw major flash floods, according to Global Times.
And in Hebei - just around the capital - a landslide in a village near the city of Chengde killed eight people, with four still missing, state broadcaster CCTV reported Tuesday.
On social media, users shared anxious accounts of being unable to reach
family
members who lived in Chengde's mountainous Xinglong county.
Local authorities have issued flash flood warnings through Tuesday evening.
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged authorities late Monday to plan for worst-case scenarios and rush the relocation of residents of flood-threatened areas.
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The heavy rainstorms have so far killed at least 38 people in Beijing
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Chinese People's Armed Police Force transporting supplies to Liulimiao Town of Huairou District after the carnage
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Villagers carrying belongings walk by soldiers heading to rescue trapped villagers on a road damaged by floods
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A drone view shows fallen trees in Beijing
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Beijing Daily said local officials had "made all-out efforts to search and rescue missing persons... and made every effort to reduce casualties".
The government has allocated 350 million yuan ($49million) for disaster relief in nine regions hit by heavy rains.
A separate 200 million yuan has been set aside for the capital, the broadcaster said.
Natural disasters are common across
China
, particularly in the
summer
when some regions experience heavy rain while others bake in searing heat.
In 2023, heavy rain killed more than 80 people across northern and northeastern China, including at least 29 people in Hebei where severe flooding destroyed homes and crops.
Some reports at the time suggested the province shouldered the burden of a government decision to divert the deluge away from Beijing.
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A taxi drives past a flooded area during heavy rains, in Hong Kong, China
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A woman stands at her mud-covered house in Beijing
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