At least 30 people have died in Beijing, as heavy rains and flooding ravaged roads and houses in northern China.

Recovery efforts are underway, and videos show rescuers combing through flooded areas for stranded residents and helicopters delivering aid supplies.

Here's a recap of key developments:

• More than 80,000 people have been evacuated to safer ground
• The floods cut power and communications in about 130 villages, making many of the victims unreachable
• Eight people have been confirmed dead in Hebei province, which borders Beijing

• President Xi Jinping has called for "all-out" rescue efforts and told authorities to prepare for "worst-case and extreme scenarios"
• Chinese authorities have allocated 200 million yuan ($28m; £21m) for recovery efforts
• Weather reports say there will be a break in the rain in Beijing today, giving rescue teams much better conditions to operate in - though rain is forecast to resume in the coming days
• Many parts of China have experienced extreme weather this summer, from record heatwaves to floods

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Stephen McDonell
Miyun, China

We visited a flood relief station housing 400 people, including many elderly residents, who’ve been moved to a safer location.

They are living in student dormitories and being given food and basic medical care.

The people we spoke to were relieved to be out of danger, but they don’t know when they will be able to return to their homes in the mountains around Beijing.

For now, the rain has stopped - but it will return in a few days according to weather reporters.

Nobody is sure when the current emergency will be declared over.

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Tourist attractions in Beijing have resumed operations, state media reported. Many of them had been temporarily closed since Monday because of the heavy rain.

These include the Summer Palace, the Beihai public park, Beijing Zoo and the China National Botanical Garden - all popular tourist and historical sites in the city.

Stephen McDonell
Miyun, China

There has been a large mobilisation of People's Armed Police and other rescue teams in the mountains outside Beijing.

We've passed many roadblocks preventing entry to the most flood-impacted areas.

On the way out of Beijing city there were visibly less cars on the road after the government told people to stay home today.

Around Miyun Reservoir, the authorities are controlling vehicle movements.

The riverside in Miyun has become a special control zone, with police tape ahead of parked police cars warning people not to approach the brown gushing waters pouring out of the hills.

On the bright side, the rain has stopped for now, providing much better conditions for the emergency services to try to reach those still cut off by the flooding and road collapses.

A young woman who told the BBC of her family being trapped in Liulimiao Town, in northeast Beijing's Huairou District, said she had "never seen rainfall like this in my life".

“In previous summers, the water would rise, but it was never this violent," she told the BBC. "It usually stayed within the riverbanks.”

The woman lost contact with her relatives on Sunday, and has only learned of their situation through her aunt, who, along with other mobile villagers, walked down to the county seat to seek help and relay information.

One rescuer told her: “Once the rain stops, even if we have to swim upstream, we’ll do our best to reach them.”

But she’s still worried about her family.

“So many places have been hit hard. We’re just a small village with barely a dozen households - when will the rescuers come to us?”

These are the latest images we're getting from Miyun district, northern Beijing, which is one of the hardest-hit areas of the floods.

Of the 30 deaths authorities announced on Tuesday, 28 were in Miyun. The other two were in the district of Yanqing.

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At 14:30 local time (21:30 GMT), Beijing ended a previous alert for rainstorms which had been activated on Monday evening.

"The heavy rainclouds affecting our city have moved out," Beijing weather authorities said. "Scattered thunderstorms are expected in our city this afternoon and evening, so please take precautions."

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As news of the floods continues to come in, many are anxiously waiting for updates about their loved ones.

A young woman told the BBC that eight of her relatives - including three elderly people in their 70s and two young children - are currently trapped in their old family home in Liulimiao Town, in northeast Beijing's Huairou District.

“They would rather stay in the old house than try to walk downstream,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. “The road has been washed away. If they get stuck on a broken road, it could be even more dangerous.”

She explained that her relatives' newer house, located closer to the river, had already collapsed as floodwaters surged through the area. The older home, while slightly safer, is at the foot of a hill and faces the risk of landslides.

She said her father, unprepared for the scale of the disaster, initially tried to save their car - but during the attempt, a telegraph pole fell and crushed it.

“He was so lucky,” she recalled. “There was a big tree nearby that he grabbed onto. If it wasn’t there, the flood would’ve swept him away too.”

Eight people have died in a landslide in a village in Chengde city, Hebei province, which borders Beijing, state broadcaster CCTV reported earlier today.

Four people are still missing, with six months' worth of rain having fallen over the weekend.

The floods in Beijing have occurred as the country is being battered by record rainfall in multiple regions.

Since 23 July, many provinces in northern China have experienced heavy rains, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Nineteen national meteorological stations in northern China have recorded new monthly rainfall extremes for this period, with 13 of them setting all-time records, CCTV added.

Chinese scientists warn that climate change is driving more extreme weather events like this.

A blue book released by the China Meteorological Administration last month pointed out that the country saw more frequent extreme high-temperature and heavy-precipitation events from 1961 to 2024 as a result of climate change.

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Natural disasters in the first half of the year have cost China 54.11 billion yuan ($7.5bn; £5.7bn), the emergency management ministry said earlier this month.

Flooding accounted for more than 90% of the losses, the ministry said.

In June, central and southern regions of China saw landslides and flash floods as the rainy season arrived earlier than usual.

In January, an earthquake in Tibet and killed more than 120 people.

Some 23 million people were affected by natural disasters this year and 620,000 were evacuated - before this week's floods in and around Beijing.

Extreme weather, which experts link to climate change, have increasingly threatened China's residents and economy - especially its trillion-dollar agriculture sector.

Martin Yip
BBC News Chinese, in Hong Kong

Southern China has also seen heavy downpours, and Hong Kong earlier issued its highest rainstorm warning for the first time this year.

Waterfalls have been seen on usually dry cliffs. One roundabout at a major junction is now submerged, with cars driving through like sailing boats. Train operator MTR has closed entrances of some stations to prevent flooding. As a result, students are not allowed to go to school in the afternoon, and court cases have been adjourned.

The rain has become less intense now, and Hong Kong’s weather forecaster has downgraded its rainstorm warning from black to amber.

Such disruption of daily life may continue in the coming week, however, as the observatory on Monday warned that the city could see rainfall for the coming 10 days.

South of Beijing, heavy rains are also expected in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui because of an approaching typhoon named Co-May.

On Tuesday morning, authorities activated flood response teams to deal with the storm.

In the country's central and eastern regions, however, hot and humid conditions prevail, with temperatures expected to reach 40C in the coming week. Authorities have urged people there to take precautions against the heat.

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The deaths on the outskirts of Beijing are the latest casualties for China this flood season.

On Monday, four people died and eight went missing after a landslide in Chengde City, about a 3 hours' drive from Beijing.

Earlier this month, when Typhoon Wipha struck eastern China, two people were killed and 10 people went missing in Shandong province.

A landslide also killed three people in Ya'an city, southwestern China, earlier this month.

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Ms Yang, who works in Hebei province, tells the BBC that she is very worried about her family, who live in Miyun district - one of the areas hit hardest by the floods.

All three of her family members are highly vulnerable, she says. Her septuagenarian grandfather is disabled; her 55-year-old father previously suffered a stroke; and her 54-year-old mother has hepatitis.

She has not been able to contact them since Sunday as the floods disrupted power and internet connection.

Their village is very small and remote, with just around 10 households, she says, adding that she fears rescuers might miss the village. Out of desperation, she took to social media to appeal for rescue, hoping that they will be found soon.

Her family had also been taking care of her pets: eight cats and three dogs.

As Beijing deals with the aftermath of the floods, many are working to repair damaged infrastructure, as well as provide support for displaced residents.

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A resident in Miyun, a suburban district in Beijing, told AFP that he watched as floodwaters swept away vehicles outside his apartment on Monday morning.

People and a pet dog were lifted to safety with a crawler, AFP reported.

"The flood came rushing in, just like that, so fast and suddenly," Zhuang Zhelin, a shopowner in Taishitun near Beijng, told the Associated Press. "In no time at all, the place was filling up."

At the traditional Chinese medicine clinic next door, Zhuang's neighbour Wei Zhengming said when the floods came he "just ran upstairs and waited for rescue".

"I remember thinking, if no one came to get us, we'd be in real trouble," he said.

Rescuers have been wading in chest-deep floodwaters to reach stranded residents in Beijing, where heavy flooding have submerged cars and disrupted power supplies.

Stephen McDonell
China correspondent

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Rains continue to pour in Beijing today.

Some 130 villages have lost electricity, and dozens of roads have been cut off, which also severs its residents from the outside world. Rescue teams have used helicopters to get people out and drop supplies in.

Around 80,000 people have been evacuated to safer locations.

According to weather reports, there will be a break in the rain in Beijing today, giving rescue teams much better conditions to operate in. But rain is forecast to hit Beijing and other parts of China once more in the coming days.

Xi Jinping has called for "all-out efforts" to save people and their properties - but has also told authorities to prepare for "worst-case and extreme scenarios".