China floods have left at least 20 dead

Residents are evacuated by rubber boats through flood waters in Zhuozhou in northern China's Hebei province, south of Beijing, Wednesday. China's capital has recorded its heaviest rainfall in at least 140 years over the past few days. Among the hardest hit areas is Zhuozhou, a small city that borders Beijing's southwest. (Andy Wong/AP)

BEIJING — Extreme and deadly downpours in Beijing have triggered landslides and floods that swept away cars, destroyed houses and left at least 20 people dead, as the remnants of Typhoon Doksuri unleashed record-high rainfalls over parts of northern China.

The maximum precipitation recorded during the rainfall in the Chinese capital between Saturday and Wednesday morning reached nearly 30 inches, according to the city's meteorological service — a 140-year high.