Heavy rains pummel Beijing and surrounding areas, with nearly the average rainfall for the entire month of July dumped on the capital city in just 40 hours
Villagers gather near a neighbourhood damaged by floodwaters in the Mentougou District as continuous rain fall triggers alerts in Beijing. / Photo: AP
A military unit of 26 soldiers and four helicopters launched an"airdrop rescue mission" in the early hours of Tuesday to deliver hundreds of food packages and ponchos to people stranded in and around a train station in Beijing's hard-hit Mentougou district, state broadcaster CCTV reported. Around 150,000 households in Mentougou had no running water, the local Communist Party newspaper Beijing Daily said, with 45 water tankers dispatched to offer emergency supplies.
Local media on Monday published footage of chaotic scenes aboard high-speed rail trains stranded on tracks for as long as 30 hours, with passengers complaining that they had run out of food and water.
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