Scenes on social media and news channels around the world has left people deeply pained as reports coming in today says that the devastation is unprecedented.
So far, at least twelve died and five others were injured in the subway flood, according to city authorities, as water coursed below ground on Tuesday evening in Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province.
Social media platform Weibo and local media outlets carried fragments of the horror — video posts seemingly made as a final testimony — of chest-high and rising water inside carriages as lights went out on the city’s ‘Line Five’ during the commuter rush hour.
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A male survivor named Zhang told state broadcaster CCTV: “My shirt, my backpack — everything I could throw away, I threw away. The people around me clutched onto the railings as about a dozen of us were climbing (out of the tunnel).”
Heavy rainstorms that have battered Zhengzhou since Saturday were blamed for the calamity.
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Days of record rains poured down on the city of 10 million and its surroundings, but nothing prepared residents for what was about to happen. XH News update on China Floods 2021 says the Government is working hard to reduce the people pain.
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Social media blew up with messages from panicked relatives of residents in Zhengzhou desperate to reach home as communications went down.
“Is the second floor in danger? My parents live there, but I can’t get through to them on the phone,” one user wrote.
