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Record Rainfall Causes Devastation in Beijing, Evacuations in Baoding City, and a Massive Sinkhole Outside Shopping Mall

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Key takeaways:

  • Two bodies were recovered from waterways in a western Beijing suburb, and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.
  • Videos on social media showed cars being washed away and buses half-submerged by muddy torrents in the area.
  • A massive sinkhole opened outside a newly-built shopping mall in the western part of Beijing, and heavy rain continued to soak the neighboring city of Tianjin and Hebei province.

Beijing was hit by record rainfall on Monday as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri slowly churned over the region, causing the worst flooding the city has seen in more than a decade. Two bodies were recovered from waterways in a western Beijing suburb, and tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes.

Videos on social media showed cars being washed away and buses half-submerged by muddy torrents in the area. Some houses were even washed into the Yongding river. In Baoding city, nearly 55,000 people were evacuated from their homes.

The downpour also caused a massive sinkhole to open outside a newly-built shopping mall in the western part of Beijing. The cause of the sinkhole was not immediately known.

Heavy rain continued to soak the neighboring city of Tianjin as well as Hebei province in a region nearly the size of Britain in the wake of Doksuri, which was downgraded to a tropical depression on the weekend.

The extreme weather has affected millions of Americans, raising questions about what is driving the extreme weather.

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