China's capital Beijing battered by heaviest rainfall in 140 years

China's superior Beijing has been pummeled by the heaviest rainfall successful 140 years, leaving astatine slightest 20 dead.

According to the Chinese authorities, the metropolis recorded 744.8mm (29.3 inches) of rainfall betwixt Saturday to Wednesday — marking the highest since 1891, based connected information from the Beijing Meteorological Bureau.

China has been buffeted by dense storms arsenic Typhoon Doksuri swept northbound aft slamming confederate Chinese provinces.

Doksuri made landfall successful China's Xiamen and Quanzhou connected Monday morning, and caused "severe flooding successful Beijing," according to a study by the NASA Earth Observatory. The monolithic tempest damaged infrastructure, forcing tens of thousands to fly for safety.

The typhoon was 1 of the worst storms to deed bluish China successful years, and the torrential rainfall successful Beijing has killed astatine least 20 radical arsenic of Tuesday.

In Beijing, more than 31,000 radical were evacuated from their homes, portion enactment astatine operation sites halted.

Apart from Beijing, utmost rainfalls also deed northbound China and the regions on the Yellow and Huaihe rivers, authorities quality bureau Xinhua reported.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for rigorous hunt and rescue efforts, arsenic good arsenic flood power and catastrophe alleviation work.

"It is important to guarantee aesculapian attraction for the injured and supply assistance and comfortableness to the families of the deceased," Xi was quoted arsenic saying.

Beijing connected Wednesday lifted the reddish alert for flood arsenic "the h2o travel successful large rivers has gone beneath the informing mark," according to Xinhua.