According to official media, severe rains that hit Beijing on Tuesday have left at least 27 people missing and 11 dead. The downpours inundated roads and drenched neighborhoods in mud.

Former super typhoon Storm Doksuri, which made landfall in southern Fujian province on Friday after initially tearing through the Philippines, has subsequently moved northward across China.

On Saturday, Beijing and the surrounding territories were pounded by torrential rain, with the capital receiving nearly the usual amount of precipitation for the entire month of July in just 40 hours.

Some of the biggest rains to hit the city in years continue to severely damage large areas of suburban Beijing.

Tuesday’s rainfall was blamed for at least 11 fatalities, according to state television station CCTV, and 27 people were still missing.

Two employees “killed on duty during rescue and relief” attempts were included as among the deceased, it said.

According to state-owned tabloid the Global Times, more than 100,000 residents in the city who were judged at risk had already been evacuated.

AFP reporters observed muddy debris scattered across the road on the banks of the Mentougou river, one of the locations worst impacted by the flooding.

According to a local elderly guy, the last time there was flooding this catastrophic was in July 2012, when 79 people died and tens of thousands were evacuated.

He refused to provide his identity, just saying that “this time it’s much bigger than that.”

As he and his grandmother waited for a taxi outside a hospital, a man in his 20s with the last name Qi told AFP, “It’s a natural disaster; there’s nothing you can do.”

“(We) still have to work hard and rebuild,” he continued.

On the route between Shijingshan and Mentougou districts, a dozen emergency vehicles, including trucks with water tanks and bulldozers, were seen.

Workers clearing the road with shovels while wearing bright orange raincoats were still blocking off portions of the route.

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On Tuesday, President Xi Jinping urged “every effort” to save individuals who were “lost or trapped” by the rain.

According to CCTV, Xi said that local officials “must do a good job in treating the injured and comforting the families of victims, and minimize casualties.”

In addition, “they must act quickly to repair damaged electricity, communication, and transportation infrastructure, and restore the order of normal production and life as soon as possible.”

Late July and early August are the crucial months for flood control, Xi Jinping emphasized, according to official media.

On Tuesday morning, CCTV transmitted live photos of a series of buses in Beijing’s southwest Fangshan neighborhood that were partially buried in floodwater.

According to the Mentougou Communist Party newspaper Beijing Daily, over 150,000 homes lacked access to flowing water, and 45 water tankers were sent to provide relief.

Intense scenes aboard high-speed rail trains that had been stuck on the tracks for up to 30 hours were captured on camera by local media on Monday. Passengers on board the trains complained they had run out of food and drink.

Authorities have issued a red alert for rainstorms in several areas of the neighboring province of Hebei and have warned of possible landslides and flash floods.

According to the Beijing Daily, the city on Monday turned on a flood control reservoir for the first time since it was completed in 1998.

Rescue workers using a crane in Handan, Hebei Province, managed to reach a guy stuck on top of his car by floodwaters and lift him to safety before the car was turned over and swept away by the current.

This summer, China has had extreme weather and record-high temperatures, both of which, according to scientists, are being exacerbated by climate change.

As Khanun, the sixth typhoon of the year, approaches China’s east coast, the nation is already preparing for its arrival.