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Days of heavy rain have hit Beijing and surrounding areas hard, causing the collapse of 59,000 homes, flooding of cropland and at least 33 deaths.

A total of 33 people had died and 18 were still missing as of Tuesday in Beijing following severe flooding, a Beijing municipal government official confirmed on Wednesday, noting that Beijing had rolled out a plan for restoring affected areas in the capital, the first step of which is to restore the basic functions of conservancy facilities damaged by flooding. Beijing will be fully engaged in post-disaster recovery and reconstruction work, executive vice mayor of Beijing Xia Linmao told a pres...

China News: BEIJING: The death toll from recent flooding in China's capital rose to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people are missing, officials said.

Days of heavy rain have hit areas in the city’s mountainous western outskirts especially hard.

The death toll from recent flooding in China's capital rose to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people are missing, officials said Wednesday. Much of the country's north remains threatened by unusually heavy rainfall.

Heavy rains have battered northern China since late July, disrupting the lives of millions.

A dam partially burst Wednesday following days of heavy rain that triggered landslides and flooding in mountainous southern Norway, a police official said.

BEIJING: The death toll from recent floods in Beijing rose to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people are missing, officials said on Wednesday, as much of the East Asian countrys north remains threatened by unusually heavy rainfall.

© Provided by Xinhua BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China armed forces have launched massive emergency rescue and relief efforts in response to typhoon-in

Zhuozhou City in Hebei saw 60 percent of its urban areas immersed in water up to 6 meters deep.　　Xi was deeply concerned about the disaster situation in Hebei.1, Xi demanded all-out search and rescue efforts to find people missing or trapped in floods.　　The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has allocated 44 million yuan (about 6.16 million U.S.