The volume of rain over the past week has broken a 140-year-old record in China.
Storms bearing unusually torrential rain and ferocious winds this early in the north Pacific typhoon season have flooded large swathes of East Asia, with China among the countries worst hit.
In the capital of Beijing alone, the amount of rain over the past week has broken a 140-year-old record. People in Beijing and neighbouring Hebei province fled their homes on inflatable boats and lorries as Doksuri, a former super typhoon, drenched China's north-east.Image source,People stand on a front loader after the rains and floods in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China
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