Torrential rain in areas around China's capital, Beijing, killed at least 20 people and left 27 missing, the government reported Tuesday, as flooding destroyed roads, uprooted trees and knocked out power.
“Neither officials nor ordinary people expected the rain to be so heavy,” said another Mentougou resident, Wu Changpo. “There were a lot of landslides and flooded villages. I cried repeatedly seeing these reports.”and authorities were looking for 27 missing people, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. Nine deaths were reported in Hebei province, which surrounds the capital.
President Xi Jinping issued an order for local governments to go “all out” to rescue those trapped and minimize loss of life and property damage., said 35,000 people were evacuated from near the swollen Yongding River. About 42,000 people were evacuated from areas of Shanxi province to Hebei’s west, it reported, citing emergency officials.
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