![]() Many of those trapped posted desperate calls for help on social media. 07:01PM (Updated: 07:29PM) BEIJING: A manicured hand touches the train carriage window as a brown swirl of floodwater squeezes up against the tunnel outside - one of many. Severe flooding overwhelmed the capital of Henan, one of Chinas most heavily populated provinces, trapping residents in the subway system and stranding them at schools, apartments and offices. President Xi Jinping called the flood control situation “very severe” and ordered authorities to “prioritize the safety of people’s lives and properties,” CNN reported, citing state news agency Xinhua.įootage broadcast by the Chinese outlet shows passengers trapped inside the flooded subway car, packed tightly together as the water climbs higher while dark floodwater surges down the tracks. Flooding in a subway car in Zhengzhou, China, on Tuesday. “I was really scared, but the most terrifying thing was not the water, but the diminishing air supply in the carriage.” “The water reached my chest,” one straphanger wrote on social media. Horrifying video captured terrified commuters chest-deep in the gushing water on a train as an underground station in the city in central Henan province was swept by the roiling flood. Terrified subway passengers in central China were left clinging to ceiling handles inside flooded cars on Tuesday, trapped up to their necks in rising water, as record-breaking rains. ![]() ![]() ( NY Post) – A dozen people died Wednesday after getting trapped in a flooded subway in Zhengzhou, China - which was inundated by what experts said were the heaviest rains in 1,000 years. ![]()
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