China: 30 dead due to heavy rains in Beijing, more than 80,000 evacuated

Thirty people have died and more than 80,000 have been evacuated in Beijing due to torrential rains that have hit the Chinese capital, the official Xinhua news agency announced on Tuesday, July 29. "The latest round of violent storms has left 30 people dead in Beijing as of Monday midnight," the agency wrote, citing the municipal flood control center. "Currently, a total of 80,332 people have been displaced" due to the bad weather, the local newspaper Beijing Daily reported on the WeChat platform. The official media outlet cited "extremely heavy continuous rains" as having caused "serious disasters," explaining that the Miyun district, in the northeast of the Beijing municipality, had the heaviest death toll. It also reported dozens of roads closed and more than 130 surrounding villages without electricity.