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Across the Pacific in China, Super Typhoon Doksuri churned slowly across its northwest, inundating Beijing and Hebei, the province that surrounds the capital city, which experienced the heaviest rain in 140 years.
A week earlier, in New Delhi, jammed flood gates and a broken drainage regulator saw water from the Yamuna flow into the city, inundating several areas, including around the historic Red Fort and Rajghat - a memorial dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi.
The river has been in spate for the last one week, swelling to 207.71 metres on Wednesday, breaching its all-time record of 207.49 metres set in 1978, and inundating several key areas in Delhi.
Visuals of the city show flood waters inundating not just the low-lying areas near the Yamuna River but also reaching the power corridors in the heart of the capital – the Supreme Court, the Delhi Secretariat and the ITO area.
Source: https://thediplomat.com/2023/07/delhi-drowns-as-yamuna-river-overflows/
While asking members of the public to stop inundating them with "false information, accusations and rumors," Lancashire Police has taken flak for its own handling of the case.