Crops and buildings were destroyed, food ruined and residents evacuated.Ī drowning women secured by other residents from flood /2yxFWhdYQmĪccording to a tunnel engineer who spoke to privately owned Chinese magazine Caixin, tunnels are usually designed to withstand what were judged to be once-in-fifty-year rain events at the time of construction. Footage shot by survivors shows commuters waist-deep in water holding tight to their carriages’ handrails and perching on low walls at the edge of the subway as water gushes through the tunnel.īREAKING – Heavy rain pounded the central Chinese province of Henan, bursting the banks of major rivers, flooding the streets of a dozen cities including Zhengzhou and trapping subway passengers waist-high in floodwaters /JSxYhz1k5aĪbove ground, several videos show people swept away by water being rescued and cars being washed away. Twelve passengers died as rainwater filled up Line 5 of Zhengzhou’s subway system. Some weather stations recorded more rain over four days than they typically get in an entire year. Henan’s capital Zhengzhou was hit by 201.3mm of rain in a single hour on Tuesday, exceeding the Chinese record set in 1975, according to the provincial met office.
Record-breaking rainfall has killed at least 25 people in the Henan province of central China, with more people missing and further casualties expected.
