Beijing: At least 37 people were killed and around two million others affected in the heaviest rains in sixty years that lashed the Chinese capital over the weekend, authorities said on Sunday.
According to the Information Office of the municipal government, 25 were drowned, six died of house collapses, one by lightning strike and five were electrocuted, PTI reported.
Economic losses touch 10 billion yuan (or 1.6 billion US dollars), said Pan Anjun, deputy chief of the Beijing flood control headquarters.
The rains have caused multiple damages to roads and bridges, including 31 road cave-ins.
More than 1,200 houses or buildings have seen leakages and 736 houses were flooded, Anjun said.
The average precipitation reached 170 mm in Beijing as a whole while that of the urban area hit 225 mm in the 16 hours of heavy rains, he said.
More than 12,000 people worked for draining 1 million cubic meters of water from streets. Most puddles in the city were cleared by Sunday morning.
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