12 people were killed as a flood engulfed a subway in China
Twelve people were killed after torrential rain swept through a subway in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, while horrific images spread of commuters wrestling with water that engulfed them to their shoulders in a train car.
As dams and rivers overflowed with torrential rain across Henan Province, President Xi Jinping described the situation as "extremely dangerous", indicating a "delicate stage" in flood control measures, state media reported Wednesday morning.
About 200,000 people have been evacuated from Zhengzhou, local authorities said Wednesday, as the army leads rescue operations in the city of more than 10 million people, where days of torrential rain have inundated streets and subways.
The water that swept into the subway in Zhengzhou killed 12 people and injured five others
Hundreds of trains, city officials said in a comment on the Weibo social media platform.
Pictures spread on social media showing passengers wrestling with rapidly rising waters inside a train carriage, and rescuers had to open the roof of the carriage to get the passengers out, according to local media.
Other pictures showed scenes of pedestrians rescued in Zhengzhou from the torrential waters that were sweeping the streets, and people from outside the city made calls on Weibo for information about their relatives, with communications with the city cut off.
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