The heaviest rainstorm in Beijing in six decades has killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday July 22,2012.
The storm, which started on Saturday July 21,2012 afternoon and continued late into the night, flooded major roads and sent torrents of water tumbling down steps into underpasses.
The Beijing city government said on its official microblog that at least 37 people had died, including 25 drowned, six crushed in collapsing homes, five electrocuted and one struck by lightning.
The worst deluge was reported in the southwestern Fangshan distric
More than 500 flights were cancelled at Beijing's Capital International Airport.
The Chinese government initiated a level four emergency response plan, the lowest level in the country's emergency disaster response system, on Monday July 23,2012 morning in response to recent floods in central China's Hubei province.
The Ministry of Finance said Sunday July 22,2012 that 120 million yuan ($19 million) has been allocated to help the cities of Beijing and Tianjin and neighboring Hebei province to fight floods.
A man pushes his motor tricycle in a flooded street. The heaviest rain in 61 years pounded the capital city on Saturday July 21,2012
People help push a stranded car through a flooded street
A bus trapped on a Beijing street
Soldiers help students evacuate from a flooded military-training site in the Fangshan district of Beijing
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