2023-08-01 04:42:37
At least 11 people have died in the Chinese capital Beijing following unusually heavy rainfall. After initially speaking of two victims on Monday, the state media reported on Tuesday of at least eleven deaths. In addition, 27 people were missing.
The extreme rainfall was a result of tropical storm Doksuri. The weather office in the Chinese capital had announced the highest rain warning level since Saturday evening and advised the population not to go outside. Since then it has rained almost continuously.
Videos showed streets turning into raging rivers of mud and parked cars being swept away by the floodwaters. A bridge collapsed under the water masses. The rural outskirts of the capital were particularly hard hit. As the Chinese “People’s Daily” reported, more than 100,000 people were taken to safer areas.
“Doksuri” had previously hit the Chinese coastal province of Fujian as a typhoon and had weakened on its way inland to become a tropical storm, which, however, brought enormous amounts of rain with it.
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