The death toll in Beijing rose to 11 on Tuesday with 13 people missing. The city government said rainfall over the past few days had surpassed levels seen in July 2012, when Beijing was hit by what was then the strongest storm since the founding of modern China, receiving 190.3mm of rain in one day and affecting more than 1.6-million people.
China's finance ministry announced it would allocate 110-million yuan for rescue work in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. Rivers have swollen to dangerous levels, prompting Beijing to use a flood storage reservoir for the first time since it was built 25 years ago. As of Monday night, China's capital city had sealed off more than 100 mountain roads and evacuated more than 52,000 people from their homes.
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