Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 30 people in Beijing, after a year’s worth of rain fell in less than a week, according to state media. Beijing authorities said they have relocated a further 80,000 residents as rain continues.

BEIJING (Reuters) -Thirty people were killed in Beijing as of midnight on Monday as as almost a year's worth of rain hit the capital in a matter of days, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

Chinese state media say that 30 people have died in heavy rains and flooding in and around Beijing, raising the death toll from the flooding in the region to 34.