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Torrential rains in Beijing kill 44, leave 9 missing; President Xi orders emergency relief, over 80,000 evacuated.

Local authorities in Beijing said on Thursday that 44 people have died and nine others are missing due to recent heavy rain.

Extreme weather killed at least eight people in the city of Chengde just outside the Chinese capital Beijing, with 18 still ...

Extreme rains and flooding across northern China have killed 60 people, more than half of them at a care home for the elderly ...

Extreme weather in northern China has killed at least 60 people over the past week, including 31 residents of a Beijing ...

Beijing has unveiled a sweeping post-disaster recovery plan after devastating floods left 44 people dead and more than 300,000 people affected, a top city official said on Thursday.

Beijing’s Miyun district became one of the hardest hit areas by storms that dumped nearly a year’s worth of rain in the area ...

Local officials admit "loopholes in emergency planning" and say the incident is a painful lesson that serves as "a wake-up ...

Beijing city officials admitted today they had not been prepared for heavy rains that soaked swathes of the capital, killing 44 people and leaving nine ...

Beijing officials say a group of older people trapped in a nursing home that flooded were among the dead in powerful storms ...

Death toll rises to 60 in Beijing and Hebei after record-breaking rainfall, landslides and elderly home tragedy.